Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-3867

Title: Puppetlabs Puppet

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2012-3867.

CWE Category CWE-264
Published Date Aug 06, 2012
Modified Date Apr 29, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
1.42%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2012-3867: lib/puppet/ssl/certificate_authority.rb in Puppet before 2.6.17 and 2.7.x before 2.7.18, and Puppet Enterprise before 2.5.2, does not properly restrict the characters in the Common Name field of a Certificate Signing Request (CSR), which makes it easier for user-assisted remote attackers to trick administrators into signing a crafted agent certificate via ANSI control sequences.

Impacted Vendors

P
puppetlabs 2
R
reductivelabs 1
P
puppet 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-2012-3867/ 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=839158 https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/dfedaa5fa841ccf335245a748b347b7c7c236640 https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/f3419620b42080dad3b0be14470b20a972f13c50 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-2012-3867/ 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=839158 https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/dfedaa5fa841ccf335245a748b347b7c7c236640 https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/f3419620b42080dad3b0be14470b20a972f13c50
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
4.3
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2012-3867 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:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.