CVE-2016-5716

high

Published 2017-08-09 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

8.8

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.8

Description

The console in Puppet Enterprise 2015.x and 2016.x prior to 2016.4.0 includes unsafe string reads that potentially allows for remote code execution on the console node.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

92%

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
puppet	puppet_enterprise	`2015.2.0`
puppet	puppet_enterprise	`2015.2.1`
puppet	puppet_enterprise	`2015.2.2`
puppet	puppet_enterprise	`2015.2.3`
puppet	puppet_enterprise	`2015.3.0`
puppet	puppet_enterprise	`2015.3.1`
puppet	puppet_enterprise	`2015.3.2`
puppet	puppet_enterprise	`2015.3.3`
puppet	puppet_enterprise	`2016.1.1`
puppet	puppet_enterprise	`2016.1.2`
puppet	puppet_enterprise	`2016.2.0`
puppet	puppet_enterprise	`2016.2.1`

References

CWEs

CWE-134

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

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