CVE-2012-1987
Puppet Denial of Service and Arbitrary File Write
Description
Unspecified 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.
How to fix CVE-2012-1987
To remediate CVE-2012-1987, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 2.7.13-1 or later
- —upgrade to 2.6.15 or later
Is CVE-2012-1987 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.8%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 2.7.13-1
- >= 2.6.0, < 2.6.15