CVE-2012-1986
LOW · CVSS 2.1EPSS 1.5%EU EUVD
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 an authorized SSL key and certain permissions on the puppet master to read arbitrary files via a symlink attack in conjunction with a crafted REST request for a file in a filebucket.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 2.1 (v2.0)
- Severity
- LOW
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 1.5% (74th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-1995)
- Published
- May 29, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-1995 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- puppet / puppet
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- puppet / puppet enterprise
- puppet / puppet enterprise
- puppet / puppet enterprise
- puppet / puppet enterprise
- puppet / puppet enterprise
- puppet / puppet enterprise
- puppet / puppet enterprise
- puppet / puppet enterprise
- puppet / puppet enterprise
- puppetlabs / puppet
- puppetlabs / puppet
- puppetlabs / puppet enterprise users
- puppetlabs / puppet enterprise users
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/079227.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/079289.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/080003.html
- http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/13511
- http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Release_Notes#2.6.15
- http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1986/(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48743(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48748(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48789(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49136(Vendor Advisory)
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1419-1
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2451
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52975
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74794
- https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/14523305
- https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15087408
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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