🛡️ CVE-2012-1987 — puppet

🟢 CVSS 2.0 — Low ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-400 OSV
2.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Puppet Denial of Service and Arbitrary File Write

A 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.

Weakness class

CVE-2012-1987 is classified as CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. A request can consume memory, CPU or storage without limit, exhausting capacity for everyone else.

Affected software

CVE-2012-1987 is recorded against 1 package.

  • puppet (from 2.7.0 up to 2.7.13)

Timeline and source

Published on 14 May 2022 and last revised on 7 December 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com (Web)
github.com (Advisory)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)
hermes.opensuse.org (Web)
hermes.opensuse.org (Web)
web.archive.org (Web)
web.archive.org (Web)
web.archive.org (Web)
web.archive.org (Web)
web.archive.org (Web)
lists.fedoraproject.org (Web)

Details

Severity LOW
CVSS Score 2.0
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE CWE-400
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-14
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-12-07
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
puppet 2.7.0 2.7.13

References

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