CVE-2012-1987
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.
Published:Apr 10, 2012
Last Modified:Nov 20, 2025
EPS:May 29, 2012
EPSS Score:0.00735
CVSS Score:3.5
Affected Products
Vendor
Product
Action
Vendor
Cloudforms Cloudengine
Product
1
Cloudforms Cloudengine
1
Vendor
Puppet
Product
Puppet
Puppet
Puppet
Vendor
Puppet
Product
Puppet Enterprise
Puppet
Puppet Enterprise
Exploits
No exploit reference
Common Weakness Enumeration
No CWE recorded yet
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
No CAPEC recorded yet
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References
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
None
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User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Changed
Confidentiality
None
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Integrity
None
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Availability
None
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