Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-3866

Title: Puppetlabs Puppet

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2012-3866.

CWE Category CWE-264

Published Date Aug 06, 2012

Modified Date Apr 29, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 2.1 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.05%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2012-3866: lib/puppet/defaults.rb in Puppet 2.7.x before 2.7.18, and Puppet Enterprise before 2.5.2, uses 0644 permissions for last_run_report.yaml, which allows local users to obtain sensitive configuration information by leveraging access to the puppet master server to read this file.

Impacted Vendors

reductivelabs 1

puppet 2

puppetlabs 2

Reference Links

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-07/msg00036.html http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-3866/ 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=839135 https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/fd44bf5e6d0d360f6a493d663b653c121fa83c3f http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-07/msg00036.html http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-3866/ 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=839135 https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/fd44bf5e6d0d360f6a493d663b653c121fa83c3f

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

2.1

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2012-3866 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:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.