CVE-2012-1989 (GCVE-0-2012-1989)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-06-27 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 19:17
VLAI
Summary
telnet.rb in Puppet 2.7.x before 2.7.13 and Puppet Enterprise (PE) 1.2.x, 2.0.x, and 2.5.x before 2.5.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the NET::Telnet connection log (/tmp/out.log).
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/13606 x_refsource_MISC
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1419-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1989/ x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/48743 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Re… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/49136 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52975 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-0… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://secunia.com/advisories/48748 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15087408 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Date Public
2012-04-11 00:00
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