Access Restriction Bypass The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package puppet.src (opens in a new tab)
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- published29 Jan 2026
- disclosed10 Jul 2012
Introduced: 10 Jul 2012
CVE-2012-3867 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream puppet.src package and not the puppet.src package as distributed by RHEL.
lib/puppet/ssl/certificate_authority.rb in Puppet before 2.6.17 and 2.7.x before 2.7.18, and Puppet Enterprise before 2.5.2, does not properly restrict the characters in the Common Name field of a Certificate Signing Request (CSR), which makes it easier for user-assisted remote attackers to trick administrators into signing a crafted agent certificate via ANSI control sequences.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=839158
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-3867
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00006.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-07/msg00036.html
- http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-3867/
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50014
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2511
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1506-1
- https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/dfedaa5fa841ccf335245a748b347b7c7c236640
- https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/f3419620b42080dad3b0be14470b20a972f13c50