National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-1986

Overview

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 an authorized SSL key and certain permissions on the puppet master to read arbitrary files via a symlink attack in conjunction with a crafted REST request for a file in a filebucket.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: SUSE

Name: openSUSE-SU-2012:0835

Hyperlink:https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15087408

External Source: SUSE

Name: openSUSE-SU-2012:0608

Hyperlink:https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/14523305

External Source: XF

Name: puppet-rest-symlink(74794)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/74794

External Source: BID

Name: 52975

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52975

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-2451

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2451

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-1419-1

Hyperlink:http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1419-1

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 49136

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/49136

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 48789

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/48789

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 48748

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/48748

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 48743

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/48743

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1986/

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1986/

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Release_Notes#2.6.15

Hyperlink:http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Release_Notes#2.6.15

External Source: MISC

Name: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/13511

Hyperlink:http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/13511

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2012-6674

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/080003.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2012-6055

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/079289.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2012-5999

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/079227.html