CVE-2011-3848 Path traversal in n/a

What is CVE-2011-3848?

CVE-2011-3848 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in n/a, published on 27 Oct 2011. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Directory traversal vulnerability in Puppet 2.6.x before 2.6.10 and 2.7.x before 2.7.4 allows remote attackers to write X.509 Certificate Signing Request (CSR) to arbitrary locations via (1) a double-encoded key parameter in the URI in 2.7.x, (2) the CN in the Subject of a CSR in 2.6 and 0.25.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2011-3848?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Puppet Puppet, Puppetlabs Puppet.

How do I fix CVE-2011-3848?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2011-3848 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2011-3848 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2016-2785 Puppet Improper Access Control Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-27021 SQL injection in Puppet DB High 8.8
• CVE-2018-6513 Privilege escalation in Puppet Enterprise and Puppet Agent High 8.8
• CVE-2018-6514 Privilege escalation in Puppet Agent High 7.8
• CVE-2018-6515 Code injection in Puppet Agent High 7.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2011-3848, GHSA-fg2j-w8mh-wrmp.