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SCA: security update for puppet (GHSA-q44r-f2hm-v76v)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 423009

Description

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

 - lib/puppet/ssl/certificate_authority.rb in Puppet before 2.6.17 and 2.7.x before 2.7.18, and Puppet
 Enterprise before 2.5.2, does not properly restrict the characters in the Common Name field of a
 Certificate Signing Request (CSR), which makes it easier for user-assisted remote attackers to trick
 administrators into signing a crafted agent certificate via ANSI control sequences. (CVE-2012-3867)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q44r-f2hm-v76v

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 423009

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/29/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-3867

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/24/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/12/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-3867

BID: 54399