Vulnerability Report

CVE-2011-3871

Title: Puppetlabs Puppet

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2011-3871.

CWE Category CWE-264

Published Date Oct 27, 2011

Modified Date Apr 29, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.2 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.04%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2011-3871: Puppet 2.7.x before 2.7.5, 2.6.x before 2.6.11, and 0.25.x, when running in --edit mode, uses a predictable file name, which allows local users to run arbitrary Puppet code or trick a user into editing arbitrary files.

Impacted Vendors

reductivelabs 1

puppet 1

puppetlabs 1

Reference Links

http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-announce/browse_thread/thread/91e3b46d2328a1cb http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-October/068053.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-October/068061.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-October/068093.html http://secunia.com/advisories/46458 http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2314 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1223-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1223-2 https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2011-3871 http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-announce/browse_thread/thread/91e3b46d2328a1cb http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-October/068053.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-October/068061.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-October/068093.html http://secunia.com/advisories/46458 http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2314 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1223-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1223-2 https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2011-3871

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.2

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2011-3871 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

October 27, 2011 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.