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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):
CVSS v2 Base Score:2.1 (LOW) (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N) (legend)
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

Vulnerable software and versions

Nav control imageConfiguration 1
line trunkNav control imageOR
line trunkspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:puppetlabs:puppet:2.7.17 and previous versions
line trunkspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:puppetlabs:puppet:2.7.16
line trunkspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:puppetlabs:puppet:2.7.14
line trunkspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:puppetlabs:puppet:2.7.13
line trunkspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:puppetlabs:puppet:2.7.12
line trunkspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:puppetlabs:puppet:2.7.11
line trunkspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:puppetlabs:puppet:2.7.10
line trunkspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:puppetlabs:puppet:2.7.9
line trunkspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:puppetlabs:puppet:2.7.8
line trunkspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:puppetlabs:puppet:2.7.6
line trunkspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:puppetlabs:puppet:2.7.5
line trunkspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:puppetlabs:puppet:2.7.4
line trunkspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:puppetlabs:puppet:2.7.3
line trunkspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:puppetlabs:puppet:2.7.1
line trunkspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:puppetlabs:puppet:2.7.2
line trunkspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:puppetlabs:puppet:2.7.0
Nav control imageConfiguration 2
spacerNav control imageOR
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:puppetlabs:puppet:2.5.1:-:enterprise and previous versions
* Denotes Vulnerable Software

Technical Details

Vulnerability Type (View All)
  • Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control (CWE-264)