CVE-2012-1986: Puppet

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 1.5% 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 allows remote authenticated users with an authorized SSL key and certain permissions on the puppet master to read arbitrary files via a symlink attack in conjunction with a crafted REST request for a file in a filebucket.

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.