CVE-2012-1987

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EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • No CVSS published and no exploitation signals yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 2.5%CVSS v2: —Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

Unspecified vulnerability in Puppet 2.6.x before 2.6.15 and 2.7.x before 2.7.13, and Puppet Enterprise (PE) Users 1.0, 1.1, 1.2.x, 2.0.x, and 2.5.x before 2.5.1 allows remote authenticated users with agent SSL keys to (1) cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a REST request to a stream that triggers a thread block, as demonstrated using CVE-2012-1986 and /dev/random; or (2) cause a denial of service (filesystem consumption) via crafted REST requests that use "a marshaled form of a Puppet::FileBucket::File object" to write to arbitrary file locations.

CVSS v3
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EchelonGraph score
Not yet assessedNo source has published severity data for this CVE yet — no CVSS score from NVD or a CNA, no GitHub advisory, and it is not in CISA KEV. This is not a rating of zero; we cannot assess it yet.
EG Score
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EG Risk
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EPSS PROB
2.5%
EPSS %ILE
84th
KEV
Not listed

Published

May 29, 2012

Last Modified

August 6, 2024

References (19)

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2012-1987(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(1)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
redhatrubygem-net-ldap-0:0.1.1-3.el6cf2012-12-04redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(3 across 3 ecosystems)
Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
puppet—
  • every version up to 2.7.13-1: fixed in 2.7.13-1
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Debian:6.0(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
puppet2.6.2-4, 2.6.2-5, 2.6.2-5+squeeze1, 2.6.2-5+squeeze3, 2.6.2-5+squeeze4
  • every version up to 2.6.2-5+squeeze5: fixed in 2.6.2-5+squeeze5
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RubyGems(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
puppet2.7.1 ... 2.7.9 (9 versions)
  • 2.6.0 up to 2.6.15: fixed in 2.6.15
  • 2.7.0 up to 2.7.13: fixed in 2.7.13
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Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 3× in last 7d / 15× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

  1. 2026-10-05 17:37 UTCEPSS rescore
  2. 2026-10-04 23:16 UTCEPSS rescore
  3. 2026-10-03 14:20 UTCEPSS rescore
  4. 2026-09-29 08:28 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-09-28 13:44 UTCEPSS rescore
  6. 2026-09-27 13:39 UTCEPSS rescore
  7. 2026-09-26 15:52 UTCEPSS rescore
  8. 2026-09-24 13:57 UTCEPSS rescore
  9. 2026-09-20 20:08 UTCEPSS rescore
  10. 2026-09-16 19:09 UTCOSV refresh
  11. 2026-09-16 13:58 UTCEPSS rescore
  12. 2026-09-15 03:04 UTCEPSS rescore
  13. 2026-09-13 16:40 UTCEPSS rescore
  14. 2026-09-11 09:30 UTCEPSS rescore
  15. 2026-09-07 15:56 UTCEPSS rescore
  16. 2026-09-05 15:22 UTCEPSS rescore
  17. 2026-09-04 13:55 UTCEPSS rescore
  18. 2026-08-28 21:34 UTCEPSS rescore
  19. 2026-08-28 18:53 UTCOSV refresh
  20. 2026-08-27 14:20 UTCEPSS rescore
  21. 2026-08-26 14:40 UTCEPSS rescore
  22. 2026-08-23 00:12 UTCEPSS rescore
  23. 2026-08-21 23:43 UTCEPSS rescore
  24. 2026-08-19 16:59 UTCEPSS rescore
  25. 2026-08-18 13:42 UTCEPSS rescore
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  1. 2026-08-16 02:09 UTCEPSS rescore
  2. 2026-08-15 01:25 UTCEPSS rescore
  3. 2026-08-12 07:17 UTCOSV refresh
  4. 2026-08-09 13:42 UTCEPSS rescore
  5. 2026-08-08 16:31 UTCEPSS rescore
  6. 2026-08-07 16:21 UTCEPSS rescore
  7. 2026-08-06 13:41 UTCEPSS rescore
  8. 2026-08-05 19:12 UTCEPSS rescore
  9. 2026-08-04 15:04 UTCEPSS rescore
  10. 2026-07-30 01:26 UTCEPSS rescore
  11. 2026-07-28 15:31 UTCEPSS rescore
  12. 2026-07-27 12:57 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-07-27 12:57 UTCVendor advisory

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Frequently asked(4)

What is CVE-2012-1987?
CVE-2012-1987 is a publicly disclosed vulnerability published on May 29, 2012. Unspecified vulnerability in Puppet 2.6.x before 2.6.15 and 2.7.x before 2.7.13, and Puppet Enterprise (PE) Users 1.0, 1.1, 1.2.x, 2.0.x, and 2.5.x before 2.5.1 allows remote authenticated users with agent SSL keys to (1) cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a REST request to a stream…
When was CVE-2012-1987 disclosed?
CVE-2012-1987 was first published on May 29, 2012, with the most recent update on August 6, 2024. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2012-1987 actively exploited?
CVE-2012-1987 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (84th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
How do I remediate CVE-2012-1987?
A fix for CVE-2012-1987 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2012-1987 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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