CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-1988

6.0 MEDIUM Published 2012-05-29 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2012-05-29
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-78

Description

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 and file-creation permissions on the puppet master to execute arbitrary commands by creating a file whose full pathname contains shell metacharacters, then performing a filebucket request.

Affected configurations

• puppet puppet (>= 2.6.0 < 2.6.15) • puppet puppet (>= 2.7.0 < 2.7.13) • puppet puppet enterprise (>= 1.2.0 < 2.5.1) • puppet puppet enterprise 1.0 • puppet puppet enterprise 1.1 • fedoraproject fedora 15 • fedoraproject fedora 16 • fedoraproject fedora 17 • debian debian linux 6.0 • debian debian linux 7.0 • canonical ubuntu linux 10.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 11.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 11.10

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command weakness

References