CVE-2012-1989: Puppet

Low severity, CVSS 3.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

telnet.rb in Puppet 2.7.x before 2.7.13 and Puppet Enterprise (PE) 1.2.x, 2.0.x, and 2.5.x before 2.5.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the NET::Telnet connection log (/tmp/out.log).

Affected products

• Puppet Puppet: version 2.7.3 only; version 2.7.4 only; version 2.7.5 only; version 2.7.6 only; version 2.7.8 only; version 2.7.9 only; …
• Puppet Puppet Enterprise: 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; version 2.0.0 only; …
• Puppetlabs Puppet: version 2.7.0 only; version 2.7.1 only

Published 2012-06-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.