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National Vulnerability Database

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  1. Vulnerabilities

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.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00006.html CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-07/msg00036.html CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-3867/ CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/50014 CVE, MITRE
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2511 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1506-1 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=839158 CVE, MITRE Issue Tracking 
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/dfedaa5fa841ccf335245a748b347b7c7c236640 CVE, MITRE Exploit  Issue Tracking  Patch 
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/f3419620b42080dad3b0be14470b20a972f13c50 CVE, MITRE Exploit  Issue Tracking  Patch 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2012-3867
NVD Published Date:
08/06/2012
NVD Last Modified:
04/10/2025
Source:
MITRE