CVE-2012-3865

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.

Predictions

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

References

• https://www.puppet.com/security/cve/overview-cve-2012-3865-arbitrary-file-delete/dos-puppet-master
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00006.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-07/msg00036.html
• http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-3865/
• http://secunia.com/advisories/50014
• http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2511
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1506-1
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=839131
• https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/554eefc55f57ed2b76e5ee04d8f194d36f6ee67f
• https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/d80478208d79a3e6d6cb1fbc525e24817fe8c4c6
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-3865
• https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet
• https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/CVE-2012-3865.yml
• https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/puppet/CVE-2012-3865.yml
• http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-3865
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-3865

CWEs

CWE-22