CVE-2012-3866
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 0.5%
Description
lib/puppet/defaults.rb in Puppet 2.7.x before 2.7.18, and Puppet Enterprise before 2.5.2, uses 0644 permissions for last_run_report.yaml, which allows local users to obtain sensitive configuration information by leveraging access to the puppet master server to read this file.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (7)
Vendor 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-2012-3866/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/fd44bf5e6d0d360f6a493d663b653c121fa83c3fQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-264
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