National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-3866
Original release date:08/06/2012
Last revised:09/07/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
lib/puppet/defaults.rb in Puppet 2.7.x before 2.7.18, and Puppet Enterprise before 2.5.2, uses 0644 permissions for last_run_report.yaml, which allows local users to obtain sensitive configuration information by leveraging access to the puppet master server to read this file.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/fd44bf5e6d0d360f6a493d663b653c121fa83c3f
Type: Patch Information; Exploit
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=839135
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-1506-1
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-2511
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-3866/
Type: Advisory
Technical Details
- Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control (CWE-264)