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CVE-2012-6120

13
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-6120 describes a vulnerability in Red Hat OpenStack Essex and Folsom where the /var/log/puppet directory is created with world-readable permissions. This allows local users to access sensitive information contained within Puppet log files. The vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N), indicating a local attack vector with low complexity and a potential impact of information disclosure. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack_essex:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack_folsom:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.39%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
31.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0039 is in the 50th percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: OpenStack Folsom for RHEL 6Fixed in: puppet-0:2.6.18-1.el6ost
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise MRG 1Fixed in: puppet
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset ManagerFixed in: puppet

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-6120Low

Puppet: Directory /var/log/puppet is world readable

Sep 17, 2012

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-0710.html
Vendor Advisory