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CVE-2012-1987Not scored

CVE-2012-1987: Puppet vulnerability

Puppet

Vendor fix available · Affected: Puppet · Exploitation: possible (1 to 10%)

Not in CyberSIXT coverage yet: no article names this CVE. This page shows the public record.

2.5%probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
85th percentile
050100

Higher than 85% of scored CVEs

Not scored yet. The CVE record carries no CVSS score.

DescriptionCVE.org

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.

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Exploitation
Possible (1 to 10%). EPSS between 1% and 10%.
CISA KEV
Not listed
Public check
No public nuclei template
Vendor
Puppet
Published
May 2012

CoverageNo articles yet

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References

7 more references are in the CVE record.