CVE-2012-3865
N/A
Published: August 6, 2012 at 04:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:44 PM UTC
3 products affected across 2 vendorsPuppet EnterprisePuppetPuppet
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in lib/puppet/reports/store.rb in Puppet before 2.6.17 and 2.7.x before 2.7.18, and Puppet Enterprise before 2.5.2, when Delete is enabled in auth.conf, allows remote authenticated users to delete arbitrary files on the puppet master server via a .. (dot dot) in a node name.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (9)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00006.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-07/msg00036.htmlx_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-3865/Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Source: [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2511x_refsource_CONFIRMExploitPatch
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/554eefc55f57ed2b76e5ee04d8f194d36f6ee67fQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-22
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