NVD - CVE-2012-3867

CVE-2012-3867 Detail

Description

lib/puppet/ssl/certificate_authority.rb in Puppet before 2.6.17 and 2.7.x before 2.7.18, and Puppet Enterprise before 2.5.2, does not properly restrict the characters in the Common Name field of a Certificate Signing Request (CSR), which makes it easier for user-assisted remote attackers to trick administrators into signing a crafted agent certificate via ANSI control sequences.

Source: MITRE
Description Last Modified: 08/06/2012

Impact

CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.3 MEDIUM
Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N) (V2 legend)
Impact Subscore: 2.9
Exploitability Subscore: 8.6

Access Vector (AV): Network
Access Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (AU): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Partial
Availability (A): None
Additional Information:
Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Allows unauthorized modification

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Hyperlink	Resource
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00006.html	Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-07/msg00036.html	Third Party Advisory
http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-3867/	Vendor Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2511	Third Party Advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1506-1	Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=839158	Issue Tracking
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/dfedaa5fa841ccf335245a748b347b7c7c236640	Exploit Issue Tracking Patch
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/f3419620b42080dad3b0be14470b20a972f13c50	Exploit Issue Tracking Patch

Technical Details

Vulnerability Type (View All)

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control (CWE-264)

Vulnerable software and versions Switch to CPE 2.2

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Change History

4 change records found - show changes

Modified Analysis - 9/7/2016 12:15:37 PM

Action	Type	Old Value	New Value
Changed	CPE Configuration	Record truncated, showing 500 of 2165 characters. View Entire Change Record Configuration 1 OR cpe:2.3:a:puppetlabs:puppet:2.6.15::::::: cpe:2.3:a:puppetlabs:puppet:2.6.16::::::: (and previous) cpe:2.3:a:puppetlabs:puppet:2.6.0::::::: cpe:2.3:a:puppetlabs:puppet:2.6.14::::::: cpe:2.3:a:puppetlabs:puppet:2.6.12::::::: cpe:2.3:a:puppetlabs:puppet:2.6.13::::::: cpe:2.3:a:puppetlabs:puppet:2.6.9::::::: *cpe:2.3:a:puppetlabs:puppet:2.6.	Record truncated, showing 500 of 3020 characters. View Entire Change Record Configuration 1 OR cpe:2.3:a:puppetlabs:puppet:2.6.15::::::: cpe:2.3:a:puppetlabs:puppet:2.6.16::::::: (and previous) cpe:2.3:a:puppetlabs:puppet:2.6.0::::::: cpe:2.3:a:puppetlabs:puppet:2.6.14::::::: cpe:2.3:a:puppetlabs:puppet:2.6.12::::::: cpe:2.3:a:puppetlabs:puppet:2.6.13::::::: cpe:2.3:a:puppetlabs:puppet:2.6.9::::::: *cpe:2.3:a:puppetlabs:puppet:2.6.
Changed	Reference Type	http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00006.html No Types Assigned	http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00006.html Third Party Advisory
Changed	Reference Type	http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-07/msg00036.html No Types Assigned	http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-07/msg00036.html Third Party Advisory
Changed	Reference Type	http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2511 No Types Assigned	http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2511 Third Party Advisory
Changed	Reference Type	http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1506-1 No Types Assigned	http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1506-1 Third Party Advisory
Changed	Reference Type	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=839158 No Types Assigned	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=839158 Issue Tracking
Changed	Reference Type	https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/dfedaa5fa841ccf335245a748b347b7c7c236640 Exploit, Patch	https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/dfedaa5fa841ccf335245a748b347b7c7c236640 Issue Tracking, Exploit, Patch
Changed	Reference Type	https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/f3419620b42080dad3b0be14470b20a972f13c50 Exploit, Patch	https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/f3419620b42080dad3b0be14470b20a972f13c50 Issue Tracking, Exploit, Patch

Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2012-3867
NVD Published Date:
08/06/2012
NVD Last Modified:
10/30/2018

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