VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2012-1987
CVSS score3.5 LOW
EPSS probability2.52%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2012-05-29
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
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.
Primary references
- cve@mitre.org — Broken Link
- cve@mitre.org — Broken Link
- cve@mitre.org — Broken Link
- cve@mitre.org — Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
- cve@mitre.org — Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
- cve@mitre.org — Broken Link
- cve@mitre.org — Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
- cve@mitre.org — Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
- cve@mitre.org — Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
- cve@mitre.org — Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
- cve@mitre.org — Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
- cve@mitre.org — Broken Link, Vendor Advisory