# Puppet Privilege Escallation

Advisory record · `GHSA-77hg-g8cc-5r37`

- **Identifiers:** `GHSA-77hg-g8cc-5r37` · `CVE-2012-1053`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** No CVSS score
- **Critical:** No
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-269](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/269.html)
- **Tags:** [Privilege escalation](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/privilege-escalation.md)
- **Published:** 14 May 2022
- **Updated:** 28 Nov 2024
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 14 May 2022, 00:56 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

## Affected packages

- `puppet` (RubyGems): affected `>=2.6, <2.6.14 || >=2.7, <2.7.11`; fixed in `2.6.14`, `2.7.11`

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our analysis of this Advisory yet. Once a person has reviewed it, this page will say what’s vulnerable, what has to be true for your app to be affected, and how to check.

## Severity and exploitation

No source has published a CVSS score for this record yet.

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0038, the 32nd percentile, on 9 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

This record came from the full history of the GitHub Advisory Database, published 14 May 2022. New records show when each source confirmed them.

## Sources

- [GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-77hg-g8cc-5r37](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-77hg-g8cc-5r37)
- [OSV: GHSA-77hg-g8cc-5r37](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-77hg-g8cc-5r37)
- <https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-1053>
- <https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/76d0749f0a9a496b70e7dc7e6d6d6ff692224e36>
- <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/73445>
- <https://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1372-1>
- <https://web.archive.org/web/20120504011717/http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1053>
- <https://web.archive.org/web/20120513215447/http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/12458>
- <https://web.archive.org/web/20120513215653/http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/12457>
- <https://web.archive.org/web/20120513223437/http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/12459>
- <https://web.archive.org/web/20120527071855/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52158>
- <https://web.archive.org/web/20120816020421/http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Release_Notes#2.6.14>
- <https://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2419>

Facts on this page come from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0), OSV and the other sources listed, as published. We don’t reproduce full advisory descriptions, which can contain exploit code.

## Check whether this affects you

A Match means an installed version is in the affected range above. Most don’t affect the app; agentprime hasn’t analysed this one yet.

- With the agentprime MCP server (<https://api.agentprime.io/mcp>), ask your agent to check the project: `check_lockfile` sends a lockfile, `check_packages` a list of installed packages, and both return the Matches and the upgrades that clear them. `get_advisory` returns this record. Setup: <https://agentprime.io/mcp.md>
- In a browser: <https://agentprime.io/check/> reads your lockfile in the browser, never uploading it.
- Whether it touches your code, with file and line: the Claude Code plugin, <https://agentprime.io/plugin.md>
- As JSON: <https://api.agentprime.io/v1/advisories/GHSA-77hg-g8cc-5r37>, or `POST https://api.agentprime.io/v1/match` with your packages (<https://agentprime.io/api.md>)

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