CVE-2012-1989

Severity

36%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

81%

telnet.rb in Puppet 2.7.x before 2.7.13 and Puppet Enterprise (PE) 1.2.x, 2.0.x, and 2.5.x before 2.5.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the NET::Telnet connection log (/tmp/out.log).

telnet.rb in Puppet 2.7.x before 2.7.13 and Puppet Enterprise (PE) 1.2.x, 2.0.x, and 2.5.x before 2.5.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the NET::Telnet connection log (/tmp/out.log).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 3.6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

Puppet

First reported 12 years ago

2012-06-27 18:55:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-07-11 15:09:00

Affected Software

Puppet Puppet 2.7.3

2.7.3

Puppet Puppet 2.7.4

2.7.4

Puppet Puppet 2.7.5

2.7.5

Puppet Puppet 2.7.6

2.7.6

Puppet Puppet 2.7.8

2.7.8

Puppet Puppet 2.7.9

2.7.9

Puppet 2.7.10

2.7.10

Puppet 2.7.11

2.7.11

Puppet 2.7.12

2.7.12

Puppetlabs Puppet 2.7.0

2.7.0

Puppetlabs Puppet 2.7.1

2.7.1

Puppet Enterprise 1.2.0

1.2.0

Puppet Enterprise 1.2.1

1.2.1

Puppet Enterprise 1.2.2

1.2.2

Puppet Enterprise 1.2.3

1.2.3

Puppet Enterprise 1.2.4

1.2.4

Puppet Enterprise 2.0.0

2.0.0

Puppet Enterprise 2.0.1

2.0.1

Puppet Enterprise 2.0.2

2.0.2

Puppet Enterprise 2.5.0

2.5.0

References

openSUSE-SU-2012:0608

http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/13606

http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Release_Notes#2.7.13

http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1989/

Vendor Advisory

48743

Vendor Advisory

48748

Vendor Advisory

49136

Vendor Advisory

USN-1419-1

52975

puppet-nettelnet-symlink(74797)

openSUSE-SU-2012:0835

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