CVE-2016-2785 describes a critical vulnerability in Puppet Server before 2.3.2, Ruby puppetmaster in Puppet 4.x before 4.4.2, and Puppet Agent before 1.4.2, where incorrect URL decoding could allow remote attackers to bypass auth.conf access restrictions. With a CVSS score of 9.8, this vulnerability is highly severe, allowing unauthenticated attackers to achieve full confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise with low attack complexity. Despite its critical nature, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
4.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:4.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:4.0.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:4.0.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:4.0.0:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:4.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.