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CVE-2012-1987

LOW · CVSS 3.5 EPSS 2.55%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2012-05-29 · Last synced 2026-08-04

Field Assessment

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CVE
CVE-2012-1987
Severity
LOW
CVSS
3.5
EPSS
2.55%

Original Filing — NVD Description

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.