How severe is CVE-2012-1987?

This vulnerability has a severity rating of LOW with a CVSS score of 3.5 out of 10.

What type of vulnerability is CVE-2012-1987?

This is classified as NVD-CWE-Other, which is a common weakness in software security.

CVE-2012-1987 - LOW Severity | CVSS 3.5

Vulnerability 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.

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