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Unspecified vulnerability in 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 to (1) cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a REST request to a stream that triggers a thread block, as demonstrated using CVE-2012-1986 and /dev/random; or (2) cause a denial of service (filesystem consumption) via crafted REST requests that use "a marshaled form of a Puppet::FileBucket::File object" to write to arbitrary file locations.
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | — | Upgrade puppet | Jul 30, 2024 | May 29, 2012 |
| Freebsd | — | Upgrade puppet | Dec 10, 2025 | Apr 10, 2012 |
| Gentoo Linux | — | Upgrade app-admin/puppet. | Oct 30, 2017 | May 29, 2012 |
| Suse | — | Upgrade puppetUpgrade puppet-server | Dec 12, 2013 | Jun 28, 2013 |
| Ubuntu | — | Upgrade puppet-common | Nov 8, 2024 | May 29, 2012 |
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