{"answers":{"affected":"4 open source packages ship an affected version, including puppet. It affects 5 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-1988 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade puppet to a fixed version for your release line: 2.6.15 or 2.7.13.","what":"CVE-2012-1988 is a medium-severity command injection vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 29 May 2012. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2012-1988 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2012-1988 is a medium-severity command injection vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 29 May 2012. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-1988 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected packages and fixed versions:\n- puppet (RubyGems): affected from 2.6.0; fixed in 2.6.15\n- puppet (RubyGems): affected from 2.6.0; fixed in 2.6.15\n- puppet (RubyGems): affected from 2.7.0; fixed in 2.7.13\n- puppet (RubyGems): affected from 2.7.0; fixed in 2.7.13\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-1988/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-1988/index.md)","id":"CVE-2012-1988","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-1988/index.md","name":"CVE-2012-1988","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2012-1988","GHSA-6xxq-j39w-g3f6"],"analysis":{"component_type":"server_software","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["code_execution"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Puppet configuration management","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Authenticated users with file permissions can execute arbitrary commands on the Puppet master via shell metacharacters in file paths.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"command_injection"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"ubuntu_linux","vendor":"canonical"},{"product":"debian_linux","vendor":"debian"},{"product":"fedora","vendor":"fedoraproject"},{"product":"puppet","vendor":"puppet"},{"product":"puppet_enterprise","vendor":"puppet"}],"cvss":{"score":6,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P","version":"2.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-78","name":"Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command"}],"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.","ecosystems":["RubyGems"],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Puppet Arbitrary Command Execution","id":"CVE-2012-1988","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":"RubyGems","product":"canonical:ubuntu_linux","products":["canonical:ubuntu_linux","debian:debian_linux","fedoraproject:fedora","puppet:puppet_enterprise"],"type":"command_injection","year":"2012"},"n_packages":4,"n_references":17,"next":{"headline":"Puppet allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack","id":"CVE-2012-1989"},"packages":[{"ecosystem":"RubyGems","fixed":["2.6.15"],"introduced":["2.6.0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"puppet","purl":null,"source":"GHSA-6xxq-j39w-g3f6"},{"ecosystem":"RubyGems","fixed":["2.6.15"],"introduced":["2.6.0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"puppet","purl":"pkg:gem/puppet","source":"GHSA-6xxq-j39w-g3f6"},{"ecosystem":"RubyGems","fixed":["2.7.13"],"introduced":["2.7.0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"puppet","purl":null,"source":"GHSA-6xxq-j39w-g3f6"},{"ecosystem":"RubyGems","fixed":["2.7.13"],"introduced":["2.7.0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"puppet","purl":"pkg:gem/puppet","source":"GHSA-6xxq-j39w-g3f6"}],"prev":{"headline":"Puppet Denial of Service and Arbitrary File Write","id":"CVE-2012-1987"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2012-05-29","related":[{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass","id":"CVE-2020-11651","kev_date_added":"2021-11-03","published":"2020-04-30"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution","id":"CVE-2020-7247","kev_date_added":"2022-03-25","published":"2020-01-29"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Exim Out-of-bounds Write","id":"CVE-2019-16928","kev_date_added":"2022-03-03","published":"2019-09-27"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Exim Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2018-6789","kev_date_added":"2021-11-03","published":"2018-02-08"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution","id":"CVE-2015-2590","kev_date_added":"2022-03-03","published":"2015-07-16"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Oracle JRE Remote Code Execution","id":"CVE-2013-0422","kev_date_added":"2022-05-25","published":"2013-01-10"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Oracle Java SE Runtime Environment (JRE) Arbitrary Code Execution","id":"CVE-2011-3544","kev_date_added":"2022-03-03","published":"2011-10-19"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CC BY 4.0","name":"GitHub Advisory Database","prefix":"GHSA"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-06","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Authenticated users with file permissions can execute arbitrary commands on the Puppet master via shell metacharacters in file paths.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-1988/"}