CVE-2012-1989

lowpriority · track · 14EPSS 0.004 · 34 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.40% (34th) EPSS

CVSS 3.6 · low

Is it mine?

22 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

telnet.rb in Puppet 2.7.x before 2.7.13 and Puppet Enterprise (PE) 1.2.x, 2.0.x, and 2.5.x before 2.5.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the NET::Telnet connection log (/tmp/out.log).

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

3.6

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.03.6lowAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 4.9

v2.03.1lowAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-264USprimary

affected products (22)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
puppet puppet= 2.7.10nvdUScpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppet puppet= 2.7.11nvdUScpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppet puppet= 2.7.12nvdUScpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppet puppet= 2.7.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppet puppet= 2.7.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppet puppet= 2.7.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppet puppet= 2.7.6nvdUScpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppet puppet= 2.7.8nvdUScpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppet puppet= 2.7.9nvdUScpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppet puppet enterprise= 1.2.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_enterprise:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppet puppet enterprise= 1.2.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_enterprise:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppet puppet enterprise= 1.2.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_enterprise:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppet puppet enterprise= 1.2.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_enterprise:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppet puppet enterprise= 1.2.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_enterprise:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppet puppet enterprise= 2.0.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_enterprise:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppet puppet enterprise= 2.0.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_enterprise:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppet puppet enterprise= 2.0.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_enterprise:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppet puppet enterprise= 2.5.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_enterprise:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppetlabs puppet= 2.7.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:puppetlabs:puppet:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-c5qq-g673-5p49Puppet allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack2017-10-24ghsa · osvUS
`telnet.rb` in Puppet 2.7.x before 2.7.13 and Puppet Enterprise (PE) 1.2.x, 2.0.x, and 2.5.x before 2.5.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the NET::Telnet connection log (`/tmp/out.log`).

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2012-06-27modified 2026-06-16

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references (33)

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