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SCA: security update for puppet (GHSA-v58w-6xc2-w799)

low Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 433458

Description

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

 - Unspecified vulnerability in 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 to (1) cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a REST request to a stream that triggers a
 thread block, as demonstrated using CVE-2012-1986 and /dev/random; or (2) cause a denial of service
 (filesystem consumption) via crafted REST requests that use "a marshaled form of a
 Puppet::FileBucket::File object" to write to arbitrary file locations. (CVE-2012-1987)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-v58w-6xc2-w799

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 433458

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

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: 3.5

Temporal Score: 2.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-1987

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 3.1

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: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-2012-1987

BID: 52975

cwe: CWE-400