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CVE-2012-1987

Published: May 29, 2012 | Modified: Nov 20, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
3.5 LOW
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
3.5 LOW
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-1987
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/.html

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 Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
PuppetPuppet2.6.0 (including)2.6.15 (excluding)
PuppetPuppet2.7.0 (including)2.7.13 (excluding)
Puppet_enterprisePuppet1.0 (including)2.5.1 (excluding)
CloudForms for RHEL 6RedHatconverge-ui-devel-0:1.0.4-1.el6cf*
CloudForms for RHEL 6RedHatpuppet-0:2.6.17-2.el6cf*
CloudForms for RHEL 6RedHatrubygem-actionpack-1:3.0.10-10.el6cf*
CloudForms for RHEL 6RedHatrubygem-activerecord-1:3.0.10-6.el6cf*
CloudForms for RHEL 6RedHatrubygem-activesupport-1:3.0.10-4.el6cf*
CloudForms for RHEL 6RedHatrubygem-chunky_png-0:1.2.0-3.el6cf*
CloudForms for RHEL 6RedHatrubygem-compass-0:0.11.5-2.el6cf*
CloudForms for RHEL 6RedHatrubygem-compass-960-plugin-0:0.10.4-2.el6cf*
CloudForms for RHEL 6RedHatrubygem-delayed_job-0:2.1.4-2.el6cf*
CloudForms for RHEL 6RedHatrubygem-ldap_fluff-0:0.1.3-1.el6_3*
CloudForms for RHEL 6RedHatrubygem-mail-0:2.3.0-3.el6cf*
CloudForms for RHEL 6RedHatrubygem-net-ldap-0:0.1.1-3.el6cf*
PuppetUbuntudevel*
PuppetUbuntuhardy*
PuppetUbuntulucid*
PuppetUbuntumaverick*
PuppetUbuntunatty*
PuppetUbuntuoneiric*

References

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