CVE-2015-4100

medium

Published 2017-12-21 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

6.8

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.8

Description

Puppet Enterprise 3.7.x and 3.8.0 might allow remote authenticated users to manage certificates for arbitrary nodes by leveraging a client certificate trusted by the master, aka a "Certificate Authority Reverse Proxy Vulnerability."

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

77%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

Debian Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
bullseye	Fixed	`0`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
puppet	puppet_enterprise	`{"startIncluding":"3.7.0","endIncluding":"3.7.2"}`
puppet	puppet_enterprise	`3.8.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-295

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.