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CVE-2012-1988 json

Puppet Arbitrary Command Execution

published 2012-05-29 14 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also GHSA-6xxq-j39w-g3f6 , EUVD-2022-2885

cvss
6.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.6%
EPSS 2.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 85%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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 and file-creation permissions on the puppet master to execute arbitrary commands by creating a file whose full pathname contains shell metacharacters, then performing a filebucket request.

Patch / fix

  • rubygems puppet 2.6.15, 2.7.13
  • puppet puppet 2.6.15, 2.7.13
  • puppet puppet_enterprise 2.5.1
  • puppet Debian 11 2.7.13-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2012-1988

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2012-1988 updated cvss 4.6

puppet: Filebucket arbitrary code execution

  • Red Hat Enterprise MRG 1 puppet
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat CloudForms Cloud Engine for RHEL 6 Server puppet 2.6.17-2.el6cf, rubygem-mail 2.3.0-3.el6cf, puppet-server 2.6.17-2.el6cf, rubygem-compass 0.11.5-2.el6cf, rubygem-net-ldap 0.1.1-3.el6cf, rubygem-chunky_png 1.2.0-3.el6cf, +6 more Red Hat CloudForms System Engine for RHEL 6 Server puppet 2.6.17-2.el6cf, rubygem-mail 2.3.0-3.el6cf, puppet-server 2.6.17-2.el6cf, rubygem-compass 0.11.5-2.el6cf, rubygem-net-ldap 0.1.1-3.el6cf, rubygem-chunky_png 1.2.0-3.el6cf, +6 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2012:1542

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.60% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 85% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.0 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
rubygems puppet
>=2.6.0, <2.6.15
>=2.7.0, <2.7.13
2.6.15
2.7.13

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command
  • CWE-77 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.