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.
Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2451-1 puppet security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2453-1 gajim security update
EUVD EUVD 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-v58w-6xc2-w799 Puppet Denial of Service and Arbitrary File Write
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-1419-1 Puppet vulnerabilities
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cve-icon MITRE

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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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2012-05-29T20:55:07.603

Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Link: CVE-2012-1987

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2012-04-10T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2012-1987 - Bugzilla

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