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SCA: security update for puppet (GHSA-c4mc-49hq-q275)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 432319

Description

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

 - 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 uses predictable file names when installing Mac OS X packages from a remote
 source, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files or install arbitrary packages via a symlink
 attack on a temporary file in /tmp. (CVE-2012-1906)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c4mc-49hq-q275

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 432319

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/8/2025

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: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 2.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-1906

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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: 5/14/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/11/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-1906

BID: 52975

cwe: CWE-377