Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-1986

Title: Puppetlabs Puppet Path Traversal / LFI

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2012-1986.

CWE Category CWE-264
Published Date May 29, 2012
Modified Date Apr 29, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 2.1 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.37%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2012-1986: Puppet 2.6.x before 2.6.15 and 2.7.x before 2.7.13, and Puppet Enterprise (PE) Users 1.0, 1.1, 1.2.x, 2.0.x, and 2.5.x before 2.5.1 allows remote authenticated users with an authorized SSL key and certain permissions on the puppet master to read arbitrary files via a symlink attack in conjunction with a crafted REST request for a file in a filebucket.

Impacted Vendors

R
reductivelabs 1
P
puppet 2
P
puppetlabs 3

Reference Links

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/079227.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/079289.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/080003.html http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/13511 http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Release_Notes#2.6.15 http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1986/ http://secunia.com/advisories/48743 http://secunia.com/advisories/48748 http://secunia.com/advisories/48789 http://secunia.com/advisories/49136 http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1419-1 http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2451 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52975 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74794 https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/14523305 https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15087408 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/079227.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/079289.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/080003.html http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/13511 http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Release_Notes#2.6.15 http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1986/ http://secunia.com/advisories/48743 http://secunia.com/advisories/48748 http://secunia.com/advisories/48789 http://secunia.com/advisories/49136 http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1419-1 http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2451 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52975 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74794 https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/14523305 https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15087408
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity LOW
2.1
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2012-1986 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

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:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.