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CVE-2011-3848

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2011-3848 describes a directory traversal vulnerability in Puppet versions 2.6.x before 2.6.10 and 2.7.x before 2.7.4. This flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to write X.509 Certificate Signing Request (CSR) files to arbitrary locations on the server. The attack vector is network-based with low complexity, and while it doesn't impact confidentiality or availability, it allows for partial integrity compromise. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:2.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.6.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:2.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.6.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:2.6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.6.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:2.6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.6.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:2.6.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.11%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
62.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0112 is in the 40th percentile among its peer group of 23,703 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 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

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise MRG 1Fixed in: puppet

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2011-3848Moderate

puppet: Directory traversal attack by processing certain x509 certificate signing requests

Sep 29, 2011

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2011-10/msg00033.html
secunia.com / advisories/46628
Vendor Advisory
groups.google.com / group/puppet-announce/browse_thread/thread/e57ce2740feb9406
Patch
puppet.com / security/cve/cve-2011-3848
debian.org / security/2011/dsa-2314
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1217-1