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NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2012-1987 Detail

Description

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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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/079227.html CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/079289.html CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/080003.html CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/13552 CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/13553 CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Release_Notes#2.6.15 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1987/ CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1987/hotfixes/ CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/48743 CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/48748 CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/48789 CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/49136 CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1419-1 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2451 CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.osvdb.org/81308 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52975 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74794 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/14523305 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15087408 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
NVD-CWE-noinfo Insufficient Information cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2012-1987
NVD Published Date:
05/29/2012
NVD Last Modified:
11/20/2025
Source:
MITRE