{"cve":"CVE-2012-1987","nvd":{"published":"2012-05-29T20:55:07.603","modified":"2026-06-16T23:40:44.627","status":"Analyzed","description":"Unspecified vulnerability in 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 to (1) cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a REST request to a stream that triggers a thread block, as demonstrated using CVE-2012-1986 and /dev/random; or (2) cause a denial of service (filesystem consumption) via crafted REST requests that use \"a marshaled form of a Puppet::FileBucket::File object\" to write to arbitrary file locations.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":[],"references":["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/13552","http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/13553"],"products":["puppet:puppet","puppet:puppet_enterprise"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T20:24:00.973572543+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2012-1987","score":0.02524,"percentile":0.84872,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[{"id":"GHSA-v58w-6xc2-w799","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-v58w-6xc2-w799","summary":"Puppet Denial of Service and Arbitrary File Write","modified":"2024-12-07T05:42:50.217139Z","packages":[{"ecosystem":"RubyGems","name":"puppet","purl":"pkg:gem/puppet","ranges":[">=2.6.0 <2.6.15"],"fixed":["2.6.15"]},{"ecosystem":"RubyGems","name":"puppet","purl":"pkg:gem/puppet","ranges":[">=2.7.0 <2.7.13"],"fixed":["2.7.13"]}]}],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}