CVE-2012-1987
3.5 Low
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
6.2 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
0.012 Low
EPSS
Percentile
85.6%
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.
Affected configurations
References
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/079227.html
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/079289.html
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/080003.html
projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/13552
projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/13553
projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Release_Notes#2.6.15
puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1987/
puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1987/hotfixes/
secunia.com/advisories/48743
secunia.com/advisories/48748
secunia.com/advisories/48789
secunia.com/advisories/49136
ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1419-1
www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2451
www.osvdb.org/81308
www.securityfocus.com/bid/52975
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74794
hermes.opensuse.org/messages/14523305
hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15087408
Related
3.5 Low
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
6.2 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
0.012 Low
EPSS
Percentile
85.6%