Path traversal in Puppet Agent - CVE-2012-3865
Published: August 6, 2012 / Updated: December 8, 2022
Vulnerability identifier: #VU43768
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2012-3865
CWE-ID: CWE-22
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Puppet Labs
Affected software:
Puppet Agent
Puppet Agent
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform directory traversal attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to input validation error when processing directory traversal sequences 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,. A remote authenticated attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request and remote authenticated users to delete arbitrary files on the puppet master server via a . (dot dot) in a node name.
How to mitigate CVE-2012-3865
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00006.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-07/msg00036.html
- http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-3865/
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50014
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2511
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1506-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=839131
- https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/554eefc55f57ed2b76e5ee04d8f194d36f6ee67f
- https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/d80478208d79a3e6d6cb1fbc525e24817fe8c4c6