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SCA: security update for puppet (GHSA-g89m-3wjw-h857)

low Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 423166

Description

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

 - Directory traversal vulnerability in lib/puppet/reports/store.rb in Puppet before 2.6.17 and 2.7.x before
 2.7.18, and Puppet Enterprise before 2.5.2, when Delete is enabled in auth.conf, allows remote
 authenticated users to delete arbitrary files on the puppet master server via a .. (dot dot) in a node
 name. (CVE-2012-3865)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g89m-3wjw-h857

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 423166

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/29/2025

Updated: 1/27/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 2.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-3865

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

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-2012-3865

BID: 54399

cwe: CWE-22