CVE-2012-3864
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.0EPSS 1.9%EU EUVD
Puppet before 2.6.17 and 2.7.x before 2.7.18, and Puppet Enterprise before 2.5.2, allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files on the puppet master server by leveraging an arbitrary user's certificate and private key in a GET request.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-200
- EPSS score
- 1.9% (80th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-3811)
- Published
- August 6, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-3811 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
- puppet / puppet
- puppet / puppet
- puppet / puppet
- puppet / puppet
- puppet / puppet
- puppet / puppet
- puppet / puppet
- puppet / puppet
- puppet / puppet
- puppet / puppet
- puppet / puppet
- puppet / puppet
- puppet / puppet
- puppet / puppet
- puppet / puppet
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- puppet / puppet
- puppet / puppet
- puppet / puppet
- puppet / puppet enterprise
- puppetlabs / puppet
- puppetlabs / puppet
- puppetlabs / puppet
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00006.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-07/msg00036.html
- http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-3864/(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50014
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2511
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1506-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=839130
- https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/10f6cb8969b4d5a933b333ecb01ce3696b1d57d4(Exploit, Patch)
- https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/c3c7462e4066bf3a563987a402bf3ddf278bcd87(Exploit, Patch)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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