CVE-2011-3848: Puppet

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in Puppet 2.6.x before 2.6.10 and 2.7.x before 2.7.4 allows remote attackers to write X.509 Certificate Signing Request (CSR) to arbitrary locations via (1) a double-encoded key parameter in the URI in 2.7.x, (2) the CN in the Subject of a CSR in 2.6 and 0.25.

Affected products

• Puppet Puppet: version 2.6.0 only; version 2.6.1 only; version 2.6.2 only; version 2.6.3 only; version 2.6.4 only; version 2.6.5 only; …
• Puppetlabs Puppet: version 2.7.0 only; version 2.7.1 only

Published 2011-10-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.