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CVE-2012-6120 json

Red Hat OpenStack Essex and Folsom creates the /var/log/puppet directory with world-readable permissions, which allows local users to obtai…

published 2013-04-10 13 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2012-5987

cvss
2.1
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 33%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Red Hat OpenStack Essex and Folsom creates the /var/log/puppet directory with world-readable permissions, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information such as Puppet log files.

Patch / fix

  • puppet Debian 11 2.6.4-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2012-6120

  • puppet openstack 2 2.6.18-1.el6ost
  • puppet-server openstack 2 2.6.18-1.el6ost

red hat advisories RHSA-2013:0710

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-2012-6120 updated cvss 2.1

Puppet: Directory /var/log/puppet is world readable

  • Red Hat Enterprise MRG 1 puppet Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager puppet
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat OpenStack Folsom puppet 2.6.18-1.el6ost, puppet-server 2.6.18-1.el6ost
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2013:0710

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

0.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 33% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

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.