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SCA: security update for puppet (GHSA-8jxj-9r5f-w3m2)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422269

Description

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

 - lib/puppet/defaults.rb in Puppet 2.7.x before 2.7.18, and Puppet Enterprise before 2.5.2, uses 0644
 permissions for last_run_report.yaml, which allows local users to obtain sensitive configuration
 information by leveraging access to the puppet master server to read this file. (CVE-2012-3866)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8jxj-9r5f-w3m2

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 422269

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: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-3866

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/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-2012-3866

BID: 54399