Bug 839131 (CVE-2012-3865) - CVE-2012-3865 puppet: authenticated clients allowed to delete arbitrary files on the puppet master
Summary: CVE-2012-3865 puppet: authenticated clients allowed to delete arbitrary files...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2012-3865
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 839168 839171 839176
Blocks: 767033 836071 839173
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Reported: 2012-07-11 05:02 UTC by Kurt Seifried
Modified: 2023-05-12 23:43 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version: puppet 2.6.17, puppet 2.7.18
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2012-12-11 09:30:21 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2012:1542 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: CloudForms Commons 1.1 security update 2012-12-05 00:29:06 UTC

Description Kurt Seifried 2012-07-11 05:02:38 UTC 
From puppet labs: CVE-2012-3865 (Arbitrary file delete/D.O.S on Puppet Master)

A bug in Puppet 2.6.16 and 2.7.17 allows authenticated clients to delete 
arbitrary files on the puppet master.

Given a Puppet master with the “Delete” method allowed in auth.conf for an 
authenticated host, an attacker on that host can send a specially crafted 
Delete request that can cause an arbitrary file deletion on the Puppet master,
 potentially causing a denial of service attack. Note that this vulnerability 
does *not* exist in Puppet as configured by default; auth.conf must first be 
edited to enable deletion.

Resolved in Puppet 2.6.17, 2.7.18
Comment 1 Kurt Seifried 2012-07-11 06:42:34 UTC 
Created puppet tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-17 [bug 839168]
Comment 2 Kurt Seifried 2012-07-11 06:47:13 UTC 
Created puppet tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-16 [bug 839171]
Comment 4 Kurt Seifried 2012-07-12 02:37:00 UTC 
External Reference:

http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-3865/
Comment 5 Tomas Hoger 2012-07-12 10:13:53 UTC 
Upstream commits:

2.6:
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/554eefc

2.7:
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/d804782
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2012-07-28 01:17:22 UTC 
puppet-2.6.17-2.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2012-07-28 01:20:03 UTC 
puppet-2.7.18-1.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2012-08-05 06:37:52 UTC 
puppet-2.6.17-2.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2012-08-05 06:38:44 UTC 
puppet-2.6.17-2.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 10 Murray McAllister 2012-12-03 06:07:42 UTC 
Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank Puppet Labs for reporting this issue.
Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2012-12-04 19:31:39 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  CloudForms for RHEL 6

Via RHSA-2012:1542 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1542.html
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