CVE-2012-3866
low
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
2.1
Description
lib/puppet/defaults.rb in Puppet 2.7.x before 2.7.18, and Puppet Enterprise before 2.5.2, uses 0644 permissions for last_run_report.yaml, which allows local users to obtain sensitive configuration information by leveraging access to the puppet master server to read this file.
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 | 2.7.18-1 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| puppet | puppet | 2.7.2 | |
| 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 | |
| puppet | puppet | 2.7.13 | |
| puppet | puppet | 2.7.14 | |
| puppet | puppet | 2.7.16 | |
| puppetlabs | puppet | {"endIncluding":"2.7.17"} | |
| puppetlabs | puppet | 2.7.0 | |
| puppetlabs | puppet | 2.7.1 | |
| puppet | puppet_enterprise | {"endIncluding":"2.5.1"} | |
References
- https://www.puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2012-3866-lastrunreportyaml-world-readable
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-07/msg00036.html
- http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-3866/
- 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=839135
- https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/fd44bf5e6d0d360f6a493d663b653c121fa83c3f
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-3866
- https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/puppet/CVE-2012-3866.yml
- http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-3866
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-3866
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.