CVE-2012-5158: Puppet Enterprise

Medium severity, CVSS 4.0. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Puppet Enterprise (PE) before 2.6.1 does not properly invalidate sessions when the session secret has changed, which allows remote authenticated users to retain access via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• Puppet Puppet Enterprise: up to and including 2.6.0; version 2.0.0 only; version 2.5.1 only; version 2.5.2 only
• Puppetlabs Puppet: version 2.5.0 only

Published 2014-03-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.