CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-9686

5.3 MEDIUM Published 2017-02-08 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-02-08
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

The Puppet Communications Protocol (PCP) Broker incorrectly validates message header sizes. An attacker could use this to crash the PCP Broker, preventing commands from being sent to agents. This is resolved in Puppet Enterprise 2016.4.3 and 2016.5.2.

Affected configurations

• puppet puppet enterprise (>= 2016.4.0 < 2016.4.3) • puppet puppet enterprise 2016.5.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References