CVE-2016-2785

CRITICAL

9.8

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score9.8

SeverityCRITICAL

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack VectorNETWORK

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredNONE

User InteractionNONE

Published6/10/2016

Last Modified4/12/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

puppet:puppetpuppet:puppet_agentpuppet:puppet_server

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-284

References

https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/pull/4921/commits/8d2ce797db265720f0a20d1d46ee2757b4e4f6b2(cve@mitre.org)

https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-2785(cve@mitre.org)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-02(cve@mitre.org)

https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/pull/4921/commits/8d2ce797db265720f0a20d1d46ee2757b4e4f6b2(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-2785(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-02(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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