Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-3865

Title: Puppetlabs Puppet Path Traversal / LFI

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2012-3865.

CWE Category CWE-22

Published Date Aug 06, 2012

Modified Date Apr 29, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 3.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.18%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2012-3865: Directory traversal vulnerability in lib/puppet/reports/store.rb in Puppet before 2.6.17 and 2.7.x before 2.7.18, and Puppet Enterprise before 2.5.2, when Delete is enabled in auth.conf, allows remote authenticated users to delete arbitrary files on the puppet master server via a .. (dot dot) in a node name.

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-2012-3865/ 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=839131 https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/554eefc55f57ed2b76e5ee04d8f194d36f6ee67f https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/d80478208d79a3e6d6cb1fbc525e24817fe8c4c6 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-2012-3865/ 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=839131 https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/554eefc55f57ed2b76e5ee04d8f194d36f6ee67f https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/d80478208d79a3e6d6cb1fbc525e24817fe8c4c6

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-2012-3865 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:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.