MEDIUM

GHSA-6xxq-j39w-g3f6

Puppet Arbitrary Command Execution

Quick fix

GHSA-6xxq-j39w-g3f6 — puppet: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

bundle update puppet

Details

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.

Are you affected?

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Affected packages

RubyGems/puppet

Introduced in: 2.6.0Fixed in: 2.6.15

Fixbundle update puppet

RubyGems/puppet

Introduced in: 2.7.0Fixed in: 2.7.13

Fixbundle update puppet

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-1988[ADVISORY]
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/0d6d29933e613fe177e9235415919a5428db67bc[WEB]
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/568ded50ec6cc498ad32ff7f086d9f73b5d24c14[WEB]
https://web.archive.org/web/20121031092646/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52975[WEB]
https://web.archive.org/web/20121025194938/http://secunia.com/advisories/48743[WEB]
https://web.archive.org/web/20121025194830/http://secunia.com/advisories/49136[WEB]
https://web.archive.org/web/20121025113446/http://secunia.com/advisories/48748[WEB]
https://web.archive.org/web/20121025112409/http://secunia.com/advisories/48789[WEB]
https://web.archive.org/web/20121013181707/http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1988[WEB]
https://web.archive.org/web/20120816020421/http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Release_Notes#2.6.15[WEB]
https://web.archive.org/web/20120513213112/http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/13518[WEB]
https://web.archive.org/web/20120415105345/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52975[WEB]
https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15087408[WEB]
https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/14523305[WEB]
https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/puppet/CVE-2012-1988.yml[WEB]
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet[PACKAGE]
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74796[WEB]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/079227.html[WEB]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/079289.html[WEB]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/080003.html[WEB]
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/13518[WEB]
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Release_Notes#2.6.15[WEB]
http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1988[WEB]
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1419-1[WEB]
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2451[WEB]