DEBIAN-CVE-2012-1986

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    DEBIAN-CVE-2012-1986

    Published: 29 May 2012Last Modified: 19 Aug 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2012-1986

    Summary:

    Details: 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 an authorized SSL key and certain permissions on the puppet master to read arbitrary files via a symlink attack in conjunction with a crafted REST request for a file in a filebucket.

    References: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-1986

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: puppet

    Purl: pkg:deb/debian/puppet?arch=source&distro=bullseye

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.7.13-1

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High