CVE-2016-2785
critical
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
9.8
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
97%
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.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Debian Fixed 4 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 0 |
| sid | Fixed | 0 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 0 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 0 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| puppet | puppet | 4.0.0 | |
| puppet | puppet | 4.1.0 | |
| puppet | puppet | 4.2.0 | |
| puppet | puppet | 4.2.1 | |
| puppet | puppet | 4.2.2 | |
| puppet | puppet | 4.2.3 | |
| puppet | puppet | 4.3.0 | |
| puppet | puppet | 4.3.1 | |
| puppet | puppet | 4.3.2 | |
| puppet | puppet | 4.4.0 | |
| puppet | puppet | 4.4.1 | |
| puppet | puppet_server | 2.0.0 | |
| puppet | puppet_server | 2.1.0 | |
| puppet | puppet_server | 2.1.1 | |
| puppet | puppet_server | 2.1.2 | |
| puppet | puppet_server | 2.2.0 | |
| puppet | puppet_server | 2.3.0 | |
| puppet | puppet_server | 2.3.1 | |
| puppet | puppet_agent | 1.4.1 | |
References
- https://www.puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-2785-incorrect-url-decoding
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2785.html
- https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/pull/4921/commits/8d2ce797db265720f0a20d1d46ee2757b4e4f6b2
- https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-2785
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-02
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2785
- https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/6592a8166572e5f1b7d058474059b8519ec81387
- https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet
- https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commits/4.4.2
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2785
CWEs
CWE-284
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.