CVE-2012-3864: Puppet

Medium severity, CVSS 4.0. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Puppet before 2.6.17 and 2.7.x before 2.7.18, and Puppet Enterprise before 2.5.2, allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files on the puppet master server by leveraging an arbitrary user's certificate and private key in a GET request.

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: up to and including 2.5.1
• Puppetlabs Puppet: up to and including 2.6.16; version 2.7.0 only; version 2.7.1 only

Published 2012-08-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.