{"id":"CVE-2012-3864","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2012-3864","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T03:22:17.679Z","title":"Puppet before 2.6.17 and 2.7.x before 2.7.18, and Puppet Enterprise before 2.5.2, allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files on the puppet master server by leveraging an arbitrary user's certificate and private key in a GET request.","description":"Puppet before 2.6.17 and 2.7.x before 2.7.18, and Puppet Enterprise before 2.5.2, allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files on the puppet master server by leveraging an arbitrary user's certificate and private key in a GET request.","published":"2012-08-06T16:55:06.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T23:44:01.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":4,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-200"],"affected":["puppet/puppet","puppetlabs/puppet","puppet/puppet enterprise"],"epss":{"score":0.01914,"percentile":0.79688,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.91%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00006.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-07/msg00036.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-3864/","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/50014","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2511","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1506-1","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=839130","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/10f6cb8969b4d5a933b333ecb01ce3696b1d57d4","tags":["Exploit","Patch"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/c3c7462e4066bf3a563987a402bf3ddf278bcd87","tags":["Exploit","Patch"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00006.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-07/msg00036.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-3864/","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/50014","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2511","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1506-1","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=839130","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/10f6cb8969b4d5a933b333ecb01ce3696b1d57d4","tags":["Exploit","Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/c3c7462e4066bf3a563987a402bf3ddf278bcd87","tags":["Exploit","Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-3864","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}