CVE-2012-5158 Auth bypass in n/a

What is CVE-2012-5158?

CVE-2012-5158 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Puppet Puppet Enterprise, published on 14 Mar 2014. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Puppet Enterprise (PE) before 2.6.1 does not properly invalidate sessions when the session secret has changed, which allows remote authenticated users to retain access via unspecified vectors.

Weakness: CWE-287

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-5158?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Puppet Puppet Enterprise, Puppetlabs Puppet.

How do I fix CVE-2012-5158?

No fix has been published for CVE-2012-5158 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and rotate credentials and sessions that may have been exposed. More about Authentication bypass.

Is CVE-2012-5158 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-5158 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-ggqp-jmq3-2qm6.