Vulnerability CVE-2016-5714
Published: 2017-10-18   Modified: 2017-10-19

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."

Type:

CWE-284

 (Improper Access Control)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.5/10
6.4/10
8/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
Single time
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Puppetlabs -> Puppet agent 
Puppetlabs -> Puppet enterprise 
Puppet -> Puppet enterprise 

 References:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/597684
https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-5714
https://puppet.com/security/cve/pxp-agent-oct-2016
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-12
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