CVE-2012-1054
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
4.4
Description
Puppet 2.6.x before 2.6.14 and 2.7.x before 2.7.11, and Puppet Enterprise (PE) Users 1.0, 1.1, 1.2.x, 2.0.x before 2.0.3, when managing a user login file with the k5login resource type, allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on .k5login.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 2.7.11-1 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| puppet | puppet | 2.6.0 | |
| puppet | puppet | 2.6.1 | |
| puppet | puppet | 2.6.2 | |
| puppet | puppet | 2.6.3 | |
| puppet | puppet | 2.6.4 | |
| puppet | puppet | 2.6.5 | |
| puppet | puppet | 2.6.6 | |
| puppet | puppet | 2.6.7 | |
| puppet | puppet | 2.6.8 | |
| puppet | puppet | 2.6.9 | |
| puppet | puppet | 2.6.10 | |
| puppet | puppet | 2.6.11 | |
| puppet | puppet | 2.6.12 | |
| puppet | puppet | 2.6.13 | |
| puppet | puppet | 2.7.2 | |
| puppet | puppet | 2.7.3 | |
| puppet | puppet | 2.7.4 | |
| puppet | puppet | 2.7.5 | |
| puppet | puppet | 2.7.6 | |
| puppet | puppet | 2.7.7 | |
| puppet | puppet | 2.7.8 | |
| puppet | puppet | 2.7.9 | |
| puppet | puppet | 2.7.10 | |
| puppetlabs | puppet | 2.7.0 | |
| puppetlabs | puppet | 2.7.1 | |
| puppet | puppet_enterprise | 1.2.0 | |
| puppet | puppet_enterprise | 1.2.1 | |
| puppet | puppet_enterprise | 1.2.2 | |
| puppet | puppet_enterprise | 1.2.3 | |
| puppet | puppet_enterprise | 1.2.4 | |
| puppet | puppet_enterprise | 2.0.0 | |
| puppet | puppet_enterprise | 2.0.1 | |
| puppet | puppet_enterprise | 2.0.2 | |
| puppetlabs | puppet_enterprise_users | 1.0 | |
| puppetlabs | puppet_enterprise_users | 1.1 | |
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00003.html
- http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/12460
- http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Release_Notes#2.6.14
- http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1054/
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48157
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48161
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48166
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48290
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1372-1
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2419
- http://www.osvdb.org/79496
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52158
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/73446
- https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15087408
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-1054
CWEs
CWE-264
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.