CVE-2012-1987
Unspecified vulnerability in Puppet 2.6.x before 2.6.15 and 2.7.x before 2.7.13, and Puppet Enterprise (PE) Users 1.0, 1.1, 1.2.x, 2.0.x,…
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Description
Unspecified vulnerability in Puppet 2.6.x before 2.6.15 and 2.7.x before 2.7.13, and Puppet Enterprise (PE) Users 1.0, 1.1, 1.2.x, 2.0.x, and 2.5.x before 2.5.1 allows remote authenticated users with agent SSL keys to (1) cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a REST request to a stream that triggers a thread block, as demonstrated using CVE-2012-1986 and /dev/random; or (2) cause a denial of service (filesystem consumption) via crafted REST requests that use "a marshaled form of a Puppet::FileBucket::File object" to write to arbitrary file locations.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 57 days later
· 57 days 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 · Analyzed | 2.0 | Low3.5 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.5% · top 15% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.5.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- RubyGemspuppetGHSA-v58w-6xc2-w799 (opens in a new tab)
References (19)
- puppet-rest-dos(74795) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1987/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/13552 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- USN-1419-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- FEDORA-2012-5999 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2012:0608 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 48743 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1987/hotfixes/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Release_Notes#2.6.15 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2012-6055 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2012-6674 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 49136 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 81308 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 52975 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 48748 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- DSA-2451 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/13553 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2012:0835 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 48789 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_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 Advisory GHSA-v58w-6xc2-w799 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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