Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-1988

RCE

Title: Puppet Puppet RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2012-1988.

CWE Category CWE-78
Published Date May 29, 2012
Modified Date Apr 29, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 6.0 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.49%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2012-1988: 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 and file-creation permissions on the puppet master to execute arbitrary commands by creating a file whose full pathname contains shell metacharacters, then performing a filebucket request.

Impacted Vendors

P
puppet 2
P
puppetlabs 1
R
reductivelabs 1

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/13518 http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Release_Notes#2.6.15 http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1988/ 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/81309 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52975 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74796 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/13518 http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Release_Notes#2.6.15 http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1988/ 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/81309 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52975 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74796 https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/14523305 https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15087408
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
6.0
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2012-1988 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:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.