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CVE-2016-2785 Details

Description

Puppet Server before 2.3.2 and Ruby puppetmaster in Puppet 4.x before 4.4.2 and in Puppet Agent before 1.4.2 might allow remote attackers to bypass intended auth.conf access restrictions by leveraging incorrect URL decoding.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:9.8 CRITICALVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/pull/4921/commits/8d2ce797db265720f0a20d1d46ee2757b4e4f6b2 CVEVendor Advisory
https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-2785 CVEVendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-02 CVEThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/pull/4921/commits/8d2ce797db265720f0a20d1d46ee2757b4e4f6b2 [email protected]Vendor Advisory
https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-2785 [email protected]Vendor Advisory

see all 6 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-284Improper Access Control[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
puppet puppet
4.0.0
4.0.0 rc1
4.0.0 rc2
4.0.0 rc3
4.1.0

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:4.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:4.0.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:4.0.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:4.0.0:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:4.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:4.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:4.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:4.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:4.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:4.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:4.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:4.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:4.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:4.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.
puppet puppet server
2.0.0
2.1.0
2.1.1
2.1.2
2.2.0

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_server:2.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_server:2.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_server:2.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_server:2.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_server:2.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_server:2.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_server:2.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.
puppet puppet agent
1.4.1

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_agent:1.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

7 change records found show changes

QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2016-2785
NVD Published Date:
Jun 10, 2016
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 17, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2016-2785 Details - Not Deferred