CVE-2011-3848
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 1.1%EU EUVD
Directory traversal vulnerability in Puppet 2.6.x before 2.6.10 and 2.7.x before 2.7.4 allows remote attackers to write X.509 Certificate Signing Request (CSR) to arbitrary locations via (1) a double-encoded key parameter in the URI in 2.7.x, (2) the CN in the Subject of a CSR in 2.6 and 0.25.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-22
- EPSS score
- 1.1% (66th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2011-3805)
- Published
- October 27, 2011
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2011-3805 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- puppet / puppet
- puppet / puppet
- puppet / puppet
- puppet / puppet
- puppet / puppet
- puppet / puppet
- puppet / puppet
- puppet / puppet
- puppet / puppet
- puppet / puppet
- puppet / puppet
- puppet / puppet
- puppetlabs / puppet
- puppetlabs / puppet
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-10/msg00033.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/46628(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2314
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1217-1
- https://groups.google.com/group/puppet-announce/browse_thread/thread/e57ce2740feb9406(Patch)
- https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2011-3848
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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