Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Puppet Agent - CVE-2012-3866
Published: August 6, 2012 / Updated: December 8, 2022
Vulnerability identifier: #VU43769
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2012-3866
CWE-ID: CWE-264
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 non-authenticated attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
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.
How to mitigate CVE-2012-3866
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-07/msg00036.html
- http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-3866/
- 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=839135
- https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/fd44bf5e6d0d360f6a493d663b653c121fa83c3f