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SCA: security update for puppet (GHSA-c5qq-g673-5p49)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 421813

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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). (CVE-2012-1989)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c5qq-g673-5p49

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 421813

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.1

Percentile: 6.91

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.6

Temporal Score: 2.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-1989

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Temporal Score: 4.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/24/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/11/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-1989

BID: 52975