CVE-2012-1906: Puppet

Low severity, CVSS 3.3. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Puppet 2.6.x before 2.6.15 and 2.7.x before 2.7.13, and Puppet Enterprise (PE) Users 1.0, 1.1, 1.2.x, 2.0.x, and 2.5.x before 2.5.1 uses predictable file names when installing Mac OS X packages from a remote source, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files or install arbitrary packages via a symlink attack on a temporary file in /tmp.

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; …
• Puppet Puppet Enterprise: version 2.5.0 only; version 1.2.0 only; version 1.2.1 only; version 1.2.2 only; version 1.2.3 only; version 1.2.4 only; …
• Puppetlabs Puppet: version 2.7.0 only; version 2.7.1 only
• Puppetlabs Puppet Enterprise Users: version 1.0 only; version 1.1 only

Published 2012-05-29. Last modified 2026-06-16.