Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-1987

Title: Puppet Puppet Enterprise Denial of Service (DoS)

Denial of Service (DoS)

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2012-1987.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo
Published Date May 29, 2012
Modified Date Nov 20, 2025
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 3.5 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.76%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2012-1987: Unspecified vulnerability in 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 agent SSL keys to (1) cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a REST request to a stream that triggers a thread block, as demonstrated using CVE-2012-1986 and /dev/random; or (2) cause a denial of service (filesystem consumption) via crafted REST requests that use "a marshaled form of a Puppet::FileBucket::File object" to write to arbitrary file locations.

Impacted Vendors

P
puppetlabs 1
R
reductivelabs 1
P
puppet 2

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/13552 http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/13553 http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Release_Notes#2.6.15 http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1987/ http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1987/hotfixes/ 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.osvdb.org/81308 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/13552 http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/13553 http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Release_Notes#2.6.15 http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1987/ http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1987/hotfixes/ 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.osvdb.org/81308 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
3.5
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2012-1987 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

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:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.