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.
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Advisories
Source | ID | Title |
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DSA-2451-1 | puppet security update |
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DSA-2453-1 | gajim security update |
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EUVD-2022-5284 | 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. |
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GHSA-v58w-6xc2-w799 | Puppet Denial of Service and Arbitrary File Write |
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USN-1419-1 | Puppet vulnerabilities |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-06T19:17:27.604Z
Reserved: 2012-04-02T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2012-1987

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Status : Deferred
Published: 2012-05-29T20:55:07.603
Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963
Link: CVE-2012-1987


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