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CVE-2012-3864

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-3864 is a file disclosure vulnerability affecting Puppet versions before 2.6.17 and 2.7.18, and Puppet Enterprise before 2.5.2. An authenticated attacker can leverage a user's certificate and private key in a GET request to read arbitrary files on the Puppet master server. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.0, indicating a low severity with network access, low attack complexity, requiring authentication, and resulting in partial confidentiality impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage for this CVE.

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

4.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
8.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.91%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
77.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0191 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 21,951 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 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 (14)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: converge-ui-devel-0:1.0.4-1.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: puppet-0:2.6.17-2.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: rubygem-actionpack-1:3.0.10-10.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: rubygem-activerecord-1:3.0.10-6.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: rubygem-activesupport-1:3.0.10-4.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: rubygem-chunky_png-0:1.2.0-3.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: rubygem-compass-0:0.11.5-2.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: rubygem-compass-960-plugin-0:0.10.4-2.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: rubygem-delayed_job-0:2.1.4-2.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: rubygem-ldap_fluff-0:0.1.3-1.el6_3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: rubygem-mail-0:2.3.0-3.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: rubygem-net-ldap-0:0.1.1-3.el6cf
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redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise MRG 1Fixed in: puppet

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-3864Low

puppet: authenticated clients allowed to read arbitrary files from the puppet master

Jul 10, 2012

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00006.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2012-07/msg00036.html
puppetlabs.com / security/cve/cve-2012-3864
Vendor Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/50014
github.com / puppetlabs/puppet/commit/10f6cb8969b4d5a933b333ecb01ce3696b1d57d4
ExploitPatch
github.com / puppetlabs/puppet/commit/c3c7462e4066bf3a563987a402bf3ddf278bcd87
ExploitPatch
debian.org / security/2012/dsa-2511
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1506-1