CVE-2012-1987
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 3.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- LOW
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P- EPSS score
- 2.5% (85th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2022-5284)
- Published
- May 29, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Analyzed
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2022-5284 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- puppet / puppet
- puppet / puppet enterprise
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/079227.html(Broken Link)
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/079289.html(Broken Link)
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/080003.html(Broken Link)
- http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/13552(Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
- http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/13553(Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
- http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Release_Notes#2.6.15(Broken Link)
- http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1987/(Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
- http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1987/hotfixes/(Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48743(Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48748(Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48789(Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49136(Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1419-1(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2451(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.osvdb.org/81308(Broken Link)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52975(Broken Link)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74794(Third Party Advisory)
- https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/14523305(Broken Link)
- https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15087408(Broken Link)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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