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CVE-2012-3867
lib/puppet/ssl/certificate_authority.rb in Puppet before 2.6.17 and 2.7.x before 2.7.18, and Puppet Enterprise before 2.5.2, does not…
Medium4.3EPSS 2.5%
- Published
- Updated
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- mitre
Description
lib/puppet/ssl/certificate_authority.rb in Puppet before 2.6.17 and 2.7.x before 2.7.18, and Puppet Enterprise before 2.5.2, does not properly restrict the characters in the Common Name field of a Certificate Signing Request (CSR), which makes it easier for user-assisted remote attackers to trick administrators into signing a crafted agent certificate via ANSI control sequences.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.5% · top 16% 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 4.3.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- RubyGemspuppetGHSA-q44r-f2hm-v76v (opens in a new tab)
References (9)
- SUSE-SU-2012:0983 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_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
- openSUSE-SU-2012:0891 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-3867/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/dfedaa5fa841ccf335245a748b347b7c7c236640 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/f3419620b42080dad3b0be14470b20a972f13c50 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=839158 (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 Advisory GHSA-q44r-f2hm-v76v (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .