CVE-2012-3864 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2012-3864?

CVE-2012-3864 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Puppet Puppet Enterprise, published on 6 Aug 2012. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Puppet before 2.6.17 and 2.7.x before 2.7.18, and Puppet Enterprise before 2.5.2, allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files on the puppet master server by leveraging an arbitrary user's certificate and private key in a GET request.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-3864?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Puppet Puppet, Puppet Puppet Enterprise, Puppetlabs Puppet.

How do I fix CVE-2012-3864?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2012-3864 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-3864 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

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

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2012-3864, GHSA-8xhg-x93x-j983.