83693 : Puppet Certificate Signing Mechanism Text Order Manipulation
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Timeline

Disclosure Date
2012-07-11

Description

Puppet contains a flaw related to the displaying of certificate information that is triggered when parsing ANSI control sequence requests. This may allow a remote attacker to manipulate the order text is displaying on certificates, allowing them to swap the text of a valid and invalid certificate, which may potentially trick an administrator into accepting an invalid certificate.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity
Solution: Patch / RCS, Upgrade
Exploit: Exploit Unknown
Disclosure: Vendor Verified

Solution

Upgrade to Puppet to version 2.6.17 or 2.7.18 or higher and Puppet Enterprise to version 2.5.2 or higher, as they have been reported to fix this vulnerability. In addition, the vendor has released a patch for some older versions.

Products

Puppet Labs	Puppet	2.6.16
		2.7.17
	Puppet Enterprise	2.5.1
		1.0
		1.1
		1.2.x
		2.0.x

References

CVE ID: 2012-3867 (see also: NVD)
Secunia Advisory ID: 49863 49871 49921 50014 50284 51472
Bugtraq ID: 54399
Related OSVDB ID: 83692 83694 83695
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2012/msg00149.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00006.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-07/msg00036.html
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/15561
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1506-1/
Vendor URL: http://puppetlabs.com/
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-3867/
RedHat RHSA: RHSA-2012-1542

Credit

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CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 4.3
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2012-08-07 | Disagree?

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