CVE-2012-1988
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…
- 6.0MediumCVSS base score
- 2.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 15% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
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 and file-creation permissions on the puppet master to execute arbitrary commands by creating a file whose full pathname contains shell metacharacters, then performing a filebucket request.
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 · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.0 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.6% · top 15% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- RubyGemspuppetGHSA-6xxq-j39w-g3f6 (opens in a new tab)
References
17
- 81309 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_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
- http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1988/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/13518 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Release_Notes#2.6.15 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- puppet-file-bucket-command-exec(74796) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_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
- 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
- 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)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-2885 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-6xxq-j39w-g3f6 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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