CVE-2012-3865
Directory traversal vulnerability in lib/puppet/reports/store.rb in Puppet before 2.6.17 and 2.7.x before 2.7.18, and Puppet Enterprise…
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- mitre
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in lib/puppet/reports/store.rb in Puppet before 2.6.17 and 2.7.x before 2.7.18, and Puppet Enterprise before 2.5.2, when Delete is enabled in auth.conf, allows remote authenticated users to delete arbitrary files on the puppet master server via a .. (dot dot) in a node name.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 31 days later
· 31 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 | Low3.5 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.9% · top 20% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- RubyGemspuppetGHSA-g89m-3wjw-h857 (opens in a new tab)
References (9)
- SUSE-SU-2012:0983 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/554eefc55f57ed2b76e5ee04d8f194d36f6ee67f (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-2511 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- USN-1506-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- 50014 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2012:0891 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/d80478208d79a3e6d6cb1fbc525e24817fe8c4c6 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=839131 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-3865/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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-g89m-3wjw-h857 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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