CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-5714
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-10-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-284
Description
Puppet Enterprise 2015.3.3 and 2016.x before 2016.4.0, and Puppet Agent 1.3.6 through 1.7.0 allow remote attackers to bypass a host whitelist protection mechanism and execute arbitrary code on Puppet nodes via vectors related to command validation, aka "Puppet Execution Protocol (PXP) Command Whitelist Validation Vulnerability."
Affected configurations
• puppet puppet enterprise 2015.3.3
• puppet puppet enterprise 2016.1.1
• puppet puppet enterprise 2016.1.2
• puppet puppet enterprise 2016.2.0
• puppet puppet enterprise 2016.2.1
• puppet puppet agent (>= 1.3.6 <= 1.7.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-284 Improper Access Control weakness
References
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/597684 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-5714 Vendor Advisory
- https://puppet.com/security/cve/pxp-agent-oct-2016 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-12 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/597684 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-5714 Vendor Advisory
- https://puppet.com/security/cve/pxp-agent-oct-2016 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-12 Third Party Advisory