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CVE-2012-3865

Directory traversal vulnerability in lib/puppet/reports/store.rb in Puppet before 2.6.17 and 2.7.x before 2.7.18, and Puppet Enterprise before 2.5.2, when Delete is enabled in auth.conf, allows remote authenticated users to delete arbitrary files on the puppet master server via a .. (dot dot) in a node name.

Security Impact Summary

CVE-2012-3865 is a security vulnerability that . Impacting 3 products from puppet, from puppetlabs, from puppet organizations running these solutions should prioritize assessment and patching.

Historical Context

Documented in 2012, this vulnerability occurred amid the cloud computing expansion era, where traditional network perimeter security models were being reevaluated. Organizations were transitioning from isolated infrastructure to interconnected systems, creating new attack surfaces that vulnerabilities like this could exploit.

Published

2012-08-06T16:55:06.070

Last Modified

2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 3.5 (LOW)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: MEDIUM
Authentication: SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

6.8

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-22

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	puppet	puppet	2.7.2	Yes
Application	puppet	puppet	2.7.3	Yes
Application	puppet	puppet	2.7.4	Yes
Application	puppet	puppet	2.7.5	Yes
Application	puppet	puppet	2.7.6	Yes
Application	puppet	puppet	2.7.8	Yes
Application	puppet	puppet	2.7.9	Yes
Application	puppet	puppet	2.7.10	Yes
Application	puppet	puppet	2.7.11	Yes
Application	puppet	puppet	2.7.12	Yes
Application	puppet	puppet	2.7.13	Yes
Application	puppet	puppet	2.7.14	Yes
Application	puppet	puppet	2.7.16	Yes
Application	puppetlabs	puppet	≤ 2.7.17	Yes
Application	puppetlabs	puppet	2.7.0	Yes
Application	puppetlabs	puppet	2.7.1	Yes
Application	puppet	puppet	2.6.0	Yes
Application	puppet	puppet	2.6.1	Yes
Application	puppet	puppet	2.6.2	Yes
Application	puppet	puppet	2.6.3	Yes
Application	puppet	puppet	2.6.4	Yes
Application	puppet	puppet	2.6.5	Yes
Application	puppet	puppet	2.6.6	Yes
Application	puppet	puppet	2.6.7	Yes
Application	puppet	puppet	2.6.8	Yes
Application	puppet	puppet	2.6.9	Yes
Application	puppet	puppet	2.6.10	Yes
Application	puppet	puppet	2.6.11	Yes
Application	puppet	puppet	2.6.12	Yes
Application	puppet	puppet	2.6.13	Yes
Application	puppet	puppet	2.6.14	Yes
Application	puppet	puppet	2.6.15	Yes
Application	puppetlabs	puppet	≤ 2.6.16	Yes
Application	puppet	puppet_enterprise	≤ 2.5.1	Yes

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00006.html ([email protected])
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-07/msg00036.html ([email protected])
http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-3865/ Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/50014 ([email protected])
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2511 ([email protected])
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1506-1 ([email protected])
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=839131 ([email protected])
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/554eefc55f57ed2b76e5ee04d8f194d36f6ee67f Exploit, Patch ([email protected])
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/d80478208d79a3e6d6cb1fbc525e24817fe8c4c6 Exploit, Patch ([email protected])
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00006.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-07/msg00036.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-3865/ Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/50014 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2511 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1506-1 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=839131 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/554eefc55f57ed2b76e5ee04d8f194d36f6ee67f Exploit, Patch (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/d80478208d79a3e6d6cb1fbc525e24817fe8c4c6 Exploit, Patch (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

How SecUtils Interprets This CVE

SecUtils normalizes and enriches National Vulnerability Database (NVD) records by standardizing vendor and product identifiers, aggregating vulnerability metadata from both NVD and MITRE sources, and providing structured context for security teams. For puppet's affected products, we extract Common Platform Enumeration (CPE) data, Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) classifications, CVSS severity metrics, and reference data to enable rapid vulnerability prioritization and asset correlation. This record contains no exploit code, proof-of-concept instructions, or attack methodologies—only defensive intelligence necessary for patch management, risk assessment, and security operations.