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Puppet Arbitrary Command Execution

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 14, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 6, 2024

Package

bundler puppet (RubyGems)

Affected versions

>= 2.6.0, < 2.6.15
>= 2.7.0, < 2.7.13

Patched versions

2.6.15
2.7.13

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database May 29, 2012
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 14, 2022
Reviewed Jan 12, 2024
Last updated Feb 6, 2024

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

0.468%
(76th percentile)

CVE ID

CVE-2012-1988

GHSA ID

GHSA-6xxq-j39w-g3f6

Source code

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