CVE-2012-5158 describes a session invalidation vulnerability in Puppet Enterprise (PE) versions prior to 2.6.1, affecting Puppet and Puppet Enterprise products from both Puppet and Puppetlabs. This flaw allows authenticated attackers to maintain access even after a session secret change due to improper session invalidation. With a CVSS score of 4.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N), it indicates a network-based attack with low complexity requiring authentication, potentially leading to partial integrity impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 2.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_enterprise:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_enterprise:2.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_enterprise:2.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.5.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_enterprise:2.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:puppetlabs:puppet:2.5.0:-:enterprise:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
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