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…

Description

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

1.9% · top 20% 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 4.0.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-200 (opens in a new tab)

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (9)

• SUSE-SU-2012:0983 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-3864/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• DSA-2511 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• USN-1506-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• 50014 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/10f6cb8969b4d5a933b333ecb01ce3696b1d57d4 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• openSUSE-SU-2012:0891 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=839130 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/c3c7462e4066bf3a563987a402bf3ddf278bcd87 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 20:21 UTC.