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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2012-1988

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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2012-1988

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/29/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/12/2013
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 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.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-puppet
  • suse-upgrade-puppet-server

References

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