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SCA: security update for puppet (GHSA-6xxq-j39w-g3f6)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 432581

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 allows remote authenticated users with agent SSL keys and file-creation
 permissions on the puppet master to execute arbitrary commands by creating a file whose full pathname
 contains shell metacharacters, then performing a filebucket request. (CVE-2012-1988)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6xxq-j39w-g3f6

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 432581

Version: Revision 1.2

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: 2.8

Percentile: 22.22

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-1988

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/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-2012-1988

BID: 52975