CVE-2012-1987: Puppet

Low severity, CVSS 3.5. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Unspecified vulnerability in 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 agent SSL keys to (1) cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a REST request to a stream that triggers a thread block, as demonstrated using CVE-2012-1986 and /dev/random; or (2) cause a denial of service (filesystem consumption) via crafted REST requests that use "a marshaled form of a Puppet::FileBucket::File object" to write to arbitrary file locations.

Affected products

• Puppet Puppet: from 2.6.0, before 2.6.15 (fixed in 2.6.15); from 2.7.0, before 2.7.13 (fixed in 2.7.13)
• Puppet Puppet Enterprise: from 1.0, before 2.5.1 (fixed in 2.5.1)

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