Debian DSA-2511-1 : puppet - several vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 60002

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Several security vulnerabilities have been found in Puppet, a centralized configuration management :

- CVE-2012-3864 Authenticated clients could read arbitrary files on the puppet master.

- CVE-2012-3865 Authenticated clients could delete arbitrary files on the puppet master.

- CVE-2012-3866 The report of the most recent Puppet run was stored with world readable permissions, resulting in information disclosure.

- CVE-2012-3867 Agent hostnames were insufficiently validated.

Solution

Upgrade the puppet packages.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 2.6.2-5+squeeze6.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 60002

File Name: debian_DSA-2511.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 7/18/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:puppet

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/12/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-3864, CVE-2012-3865, CVE-2012-3866, CVE-2012-3867

BID: 54399

DSA: 2511

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