CVE-2012-1988
Puppet Arbitrary Command Execution
EPSS 0.49%
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 agent SSL keys and file-creation permissions on the puppet master to execute arbitrary commands by creating a file whose full pathname contains shell metacharacters, then performing a filebucket request.
How to fix CVE-2012-1988
To remediate CVE-2012-1988, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/puppet—upgrade to 2.7.13-1 or later
- —upgrade to 2.6.15 or later
Is CVE-2012-1988 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.5%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 2.7.13-1
- >= 2.6.0, < 2.6.15