CVE-2012-3864

N/A Unknown

Published: August 06, 2012 Modified: April 29, 2026

Description

Puppet before 2.6.17 and 2.7.x before 2.7.18, and Puppet Enterprise before 2.5.2, allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files on the puppet master server by leveraging an arbitrary user's certificate and private key in a GET request.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00006.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-07/msg00036.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-3864/

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/50014

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2511

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1506-1

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=839130

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/10f6cb8969b4d5a933b333ecb01ce3696b1d57d4

Source: cve@mitre.org

Exploit Patch

https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/c3c7462e4066bf3a563987a402bf3ddf278bcd87

Source: cve@mitre.org

Exploit Patch

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00006.html