CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-1987

3.5 LOW Published 2012-05-29 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2012-05-29
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
3.5 LOW — AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in 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 to (1) cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a REST request to a stream that triggers a thread block, as demonstrated using CVE-2012-1986 and /dev/random; or (2) cause a denial of service (filesystem consumption) via crafted REST requests that use "a marshaled form of a Puppet::FileBucket::File object" to write to arbitrary file locations.

Affected configurations

• puppet puppet (>= 2.6.0 < 2.6.15) • puppet puppet (>= 2.7.0 < 2.7.13) • puppet puppet enterprise (>= 1.0 < 2.5.1)

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