Is CVE-2012-1987 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2012-1987 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2012-1987?

CVE-2012-1987 has a CVSS v2 base score of 3.5 (LOW).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2012-1987?

CVE-2012-1987 has an EPSS score of 2.55% (83th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2012-1987?

Upgrade puppet on debian 11 to 2.7.13-1 or later.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2012-1987

LOWEPSS 83th pctl

3.5

CVSS v2

NVD

Description

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.

How to fix

Remediation Available

puppetDebian

Fixed in:2.7.13-1CVE-2012-1987

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v2 Vector

No CVSS vector data available.

Exploit Intelligence

2.55%probability of exploitation in 30 days

83rdpercentile

Elevated risk: more likely to be exploited than 83% of all known CVEs.

References

Vendor Advisory8

Third-Party Advisory3

Other references8

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2025-11-20.