CVE-2011-3871: Puppet

Medium severity, CVSS 6.2. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Puppet 2.7.x before 2.7.5, 2.6.x before 2.6.11, and 0.25.x, when running in --edit mode, uses a predictable file name, which allows local users to run arbitrary Puppet code or trick a user into editing arbitrary files.

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.