CVE-2012-1989
low
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
3.6
Description
telnet.rb in Puppet 2.7.x before 2.7.13 and Puppet Enterprise (PE) 1.2.x, 2.0.x, and 2.5.x before 2.5.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the NET::Telnet connection log (/tmp/out.log).
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Debian Fixed 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| bullseye | Fixed | 2.7.13-1 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| puppet | puppet | 2.7.3 | |
| puppet | puppet | 2.7.4 | |
| puppet | puppet | 2.7.5 | |
| puppet | puppet | 2.7.6 | |
| puppet | puppet | 2.7.8 | |
| puppet | puppet | 2.7.9 | |
| puppet | puppet | 2.7.10 | |
| puppet | puppet | 2.7.11 | |
| puppet | puppet | 2.7.12 | |
| puppetlabs | puppet | 2.7.0 | |
| puppetlabs | puppet | 2.7.1 | |
| puppet | puppet_enterprise | 1.2.0 | |
| puppet | puppet_enterprise | 1.2.1 | |
| puppet | puppet_enterprise | 1.2.2 | |
| puppet | puppet_enterprise | 1.2.3 | |
| puppet | puppet_enterprise | 1.2.4 | |
| puppet | puppet_enterprise | 2.0.0 | |
| puppet | puppet_enterprise | 2.0.1 | |
| puppet | puppet_enterprise | 2.0.2 | |
| puppet | puppet_enterprise | 2.5.0 | |
References
- https://www.puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1989-arbitrary-file-write-access
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-05/msg00012.html
- http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/13606
- http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Release_Notes#2.7.13
- http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1989/
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48743
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48748
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49136
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1419-1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52975
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74797
- https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15087408
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-1989
- https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/puppet/CVE-2012-1989.yml
- https://web.archive.org/web/20120415105345/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52975
- http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1989
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-1989
CWEs
CWE-264
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.