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CVE-2012-1054
Puppet 2.6.x before 2.6.14 and 2.7.x before 2.7.11, and Puppet Enterprise (PE) Users 1.0, 1.1, 1.2.x, 2.0.x before 2.0.3, when managing a…
Medium4.4EPSS 0.37%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
Puppet 2.6.x before 2.6.14 and 2.7.x before 2.7.11, and Puppet Enterprise (PE) Users 1.0, 1.1, 1.2.x, 2.0.x before 2.0.3, when managing a user login file with the k5login resource type, allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on .k5login.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 12 years later
· 12 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.4 | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.37% · top 69% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.4.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (14)
- 48157 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Release_Notes#2.6.14 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 48166 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/12460 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 79496 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1054/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-1372-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- 48290 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 48161 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2012:0325 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 52158 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- DSA-2419 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- puppet-k5login-type-symlink(73446) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2012:0835 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2012-1054)Record last updated .