ADVISORIES

• CVE-2012-3865 (NVD)
• GHSA-g89m-3wjw-h857
• Vendor Advisory

GEM

puppet

SEVERITY

CVSS v2.0: 3.5 (Low)

PATCHED VERSIONS

• ~> 2.6.17
• >= 2.7.18

DESCRIPTION

Directory traversal vulnerability in lib/puppet/reports/store.rb in Puppet before 2.6.17 and 2.7.x before 2.7.18, and Puppet Enterprise before 2.5.2, when Delete is enabled in auth.conf, allows remote authenticated users to delete arbitrary files on the puppet master server via a .. (dot dot) in a node name.

RELATED

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-3865
• https://www.puppet.com/security/cve/overview-cve-2012-3865-arbitrary-file-delete/dos-puppet-master
• https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/554eefc55f57ed2b76e5ee04d8f194d36f6ee67f
• https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/d80478208d79a3e6d6cb1fbc525e24817fe8c4c6
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g89m-3wjw-h857
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=839131
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00006.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2511
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1506-1