CVE-2012-1986

low
Published 2012-05-29 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
2.1
VIR risk
2.1

Description

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 an authorized SSL key and certain permissions on the puppet master to read arbitrary files via a symlink attack in conjunction with a crafted REST request for a file in a filebucket.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-1986

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://secunia.com/advisories/49136

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://secunia.com/advisories/48789

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://secunia.com/advisories/48748

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://secunia.com/advisories/48743

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1986/

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbullseyefixed2.7.13-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
puppetpuppet2.6.0
puppetpuppet2.6.1
puppetpuppet2.6.2
puppetpuppet2.6.3
puppetpuppet2.6.4
puppetpuppet2.6.5
puppetpuppet2.6.6
puppetpuppet2.6.7
puppetpuppet2.6.8
puppetpuppet2.6.9
puppetpuppet2.6.10
puppetpuppet2.6.11
puppetpuppet2.6.12
puppetpuppet2.6.13
puppetpuppet2.6.14
puppetpuppet2.7.2
puppetpuppet2.7.3
puppetpuppet2.7.4
puppetpuppet2.7.5
puppetpuppet2.7.6
puppetpuppet2.7.7
puppetpuppet2.7.8
puppetpuppet2.7.9
puppetpuppet2.7.10
puppetpuppet2.7.11
puppetpuppet_enterprise2.5.0
puppetlabspuppet2.7.0
puppetlabspuppet2.7.1
puppetpuppet_enterprise1.2.0
puppetpuppet_enterprise1.2.1
puppetpuppet_enterprise1.2.2
puppetpuppet_enterprise1.2.3
puppetpuppet_enterprise1.2.4
puppetpuppet_enterprise2.0.0
puppetpuppet_enterprise2.0.1
puppetpuppet_enterprise2.0.2
puppetlabspuppet_enterprise_users1.0
puppetlabspuppet_enterprise_users1.1

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.