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CVE-2012-1988

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…

Medium6.0EPSS 2.6%
Published
Updated
Reserved
Assigned by
mitre

Description

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 and file-creation permissions on the puppet master to execute arbitrary commands by creating a file whose full pathname contains shell metacharacters, then performing a filebucket request.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2012-1988, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
NVDNVD · Modified2.0Medium6.0AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
2.6% · 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: Medium 6.0.

Weakness

Affected products

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Affected packages

From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.

References (17)

Sources

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Record last updated .