Information Exposure Affecting puppet package, versions >=2.7.0, <2.7.18


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUBY-PUPPET-20317
  • published28 Feb 2017
  • disclosed27 Jun 2012
  • creditPuppet Labs

Introduced: 27 Jun 2012

CVE-2012-3866  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade puppet to version 2.7.18 or higher.

Overview

puppet is an automated configuration management tool. Affected versions of the package are vulnerable to Information Disclosure via the last_run_report.yaml file, which has global read permission. This file may contain sensitive information that can aid an attacker to execute an attack.

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