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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,…

Low3.5EPSS 2.5%
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Updated
Reserved
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Description

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.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2012-1987, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
NVDNVD · Analyzed2.0Low3.5AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
2.5% · top 15% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)

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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.5.

Weakness

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Affected products

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Affected packages

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References (19)

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Record last updated .