CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-5716
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-08-09
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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-134
Description
The console in Puppet Enterprise 2015.x and 2016.x prior to 2016.4.0 includes unsafe string reads that potentially allows for remote code execution on the console node.
Affected configurations
• puppet puppet enterprise 2015.2.0
• puppet puppet enterprise 2015.2.1
• puppet puppet enterprise 2015.2.2
• puppet puppet enterprise 2015.2.3
• puppet puppet enterprise 2015.3.0
• puppet puppet enterprise 2015.3.1
• puppet puppet enterprise 2015.3.2
• 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
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-134 Use of Externally-Controlled Format String weakness
References
- https://puppet.com/security/cve/pe-console-oct-2016 Vendor Advisory
- https://puppet.com/security/cve/pe-console-oct-2016 Vendor Advisory