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CVE-2015-1029

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-1029 describes a privilege escalation and information disclosure vulnerability affecting the puppetlabs-stdlib module (versions 2.1-3.0 and 4.1.0-4.5.x before 4.5.1) for Puppet 2.8.8 and earlier. An authenticated remote attacker could exploit this by prepopulating the fact cache. With a CVSS score of 6.5 (medium severity), this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and could lead to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:stdlib:2.1.0:*:*:*:*:puppet:*:*
2.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:stdlib:2.1.1:*:*:*:*:puppet:*:*
2.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:stdlib:2.1.2:*:*:*:*:puppet:*:*
2.1.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:stdlib:2.1.3:*:*:*:*:puppet:*:*
2.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:stdlib:2.2.0:*:*:*:*:puppet:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.5MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
8.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.65%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
74.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0165 is in the 87th percentile among its peer group of 21,951 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 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)

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: azl3 puppet 7.34.0-1 on Azure Linux 3.0Fixed in: 7.34.0-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 16818-17084Fixed in: 7.34.0-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 16818-16817Fixed in: 7.34.0-1

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2015-Jan/CVE-2015-1029Moderate

The puppetlabs-stdlib module 2.1 through 3.0 and 4.1.0 through 4.5.x before 4.5.1 for Puppet 2.8.8 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges or obtain sensitive information by prepopulating the fact cache.

Jan 2, 2015

References

puppetlabs.com / security/cve/cve-2015-1029
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/62328