GoogleOSV:GHSA-V58W-6XC2-W799Puppet Denial of Service and Arbitrary File Write
A 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.
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
ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1419-1
www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2451
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74794
github.com/advisories/GHSA-v58w-6xc2-w799
github.com/puppetlabs/puppet
github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/0d6d29933e613fe177e9235415919a5428db67bc
github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/568ded50ec6cc498ad32ff7f086d9f73b5d24c14
github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/puppet/CVE-2012-1987.yml
hermes.opensuse.org/messages/14523305
hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15087408
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-1987
web.archive.org/web/20120415105345/www.securityfocus.com/bid/52975
web.archive.org/web/20120513213318/projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/13553
web.archive.org/web/20120513224202/projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/13552
web.archive.org/web/20121005145241/projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Release_Notes#2.6.15
web.archive.org/web/20160808163232/https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1987
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