Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-3864

Title: Puppetlabs Puppet Path Traversal / LFI

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2012-3864.

CWE Category CWE-200

Published Date Aug 06, 2012

Modified Date Apr 29, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.31%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2012-3864: Puppet before 2.6.17 and 2.7.x before 2.7.18, and Puppet Enterprise before 2.5.2, allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files on the puppet master server by leveraging an arbitrary user's certificate and private key in a GET request.

Impacted Vendors

reductivelabs 1

puppet 2

puppetlabs 2

Reference Links

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00006.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-07/msg00036.html http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-3864/ http://secunia.com/advisories/50014 http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2511 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1506-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=839130 https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/10f6cb8969b4d5a933b333ecb01ce3696b1d57d4 https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/c3c7462e4066bf3a563987a402bf3ddf278bcd87 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00006.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-07/msg00036.html http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-3864/ http://secunia.com/advisories/50014 http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2511 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1506-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=839130 https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/10f6cb8969b4d5a933b333ecb01ce3696b1d57d4 https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/c3c7462e4066bf3a563987a402bf3ddf278bcd87

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2012-3864 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.

August 06, 2012 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:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.