LOW

GHSA-8jxj-9r5f-w3m2

Puppet allows local users to obtain sensitive configuration information

Quick fix

GHSA-8jxj-9r5f-w3m2 — puppet: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

bundle update puppet

Details

`lib/puppet/defaults.rb` in Puppet 2.7.x before 2.7.18, and Puppet Enterprise before 2.5.2, uses 0644 permissions for `last_run_report.yaml`, which allows local users to obtain sensitive configuration information by leveraging access to the puppet master server to read this file.

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Affected packages

RubyGems/puppet

Introduced in: 2.7.0Fixed in: 2.7.18

Fixbundle update puppet

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-3866[ADVISORY]
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/fd44bf5e6d0d360f6a493d663b653c121fa83c3f[WEB]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=839135[WEB]
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet[PACKAGE]
https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/puppet/CVE-2012-3866.yml[WEB]
https://www.puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2012-3866-lastrunreportyaml-world-readable[WEB]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-07/msg00036.html[WEB]
http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-3866[WEB]
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2511[WEB]
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1506-1[WEB]