CVE-2012-1986 Information

Description

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 an authorized SSL key and certain permissions on the puppet master to read arbitrary files via a symlink attack in conjunction with a crafted REST request for a file in a filebucket.

Reference

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/079227.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/079289.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/080003.html http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/13511 http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Release_Notes2.6.15 http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1986/ http://secunia.com/advisories/48743 http://secunia.com/advisories/48748 http://secunia.com/advisories/48789 http://secunia.com/advisories/49136 http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1419-1 http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2451 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52975 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74794 https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/14523305 https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15087408