CVE-2016-2785
CRITICAL
9.8
CVSS Score
Published: June 10, 2016 at 03:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:44 AM UTC
2 products affected across 1 vendorPuppetPuppet Agent
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Severity
CRITICAL9.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 3%
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (3)
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/pull/4921/commits/8d2ce797db265720f0a20d1d46ee2757b4e4f6b2x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-2785Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-02CVSS
- Attack Vector
- NETWORK
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- NONE
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- HIGH
- Integrity
- HIGH
- Availability
- HIGH
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-284
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