CVE-2011-3848

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2011-09-29
Bugzilla:
742174: CVE-2011-3848 puppet: Directory traversal attack by processing certain x509 certificate signing requests

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Directory traversal vulnerability in Puppet 2.6.x before 2.6.10 and 2.7.x before 2.7.4 allows remote attackers to write X.509 Certificate Signing Request (CSR) to arbitrary locations via (1) a double-encoded key parameter in the URI in 2.7.x, (2) the CN in the Subject of a CSR in 2.6 and 0.25.

Find out more about CVE-2011-3848 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 4
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication Single
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise MRG 1 puppet Will not fix
Red Hat CloudForms Tools 1 puppet Will not fix
Red Hat CloudForms System Engine 1 puppet Will not fix

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