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Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for puppet (ALAS-2012-75) (CVE-2012-1986)

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Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for puppet (ALAS-2012-75) (CVE-2012-1986)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
05/29/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/28/2014
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

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 an authorized SSL key and certain permissions on the puppet master to read arbitrary files via a symlink attack in conjunction with a crafted REST request for a file in a filebucket.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-puppet
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-puppet-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-puppet-server

References

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