CVE-2013-2716

medium

Published 2013-04-10 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.0

Description

Puppet Labs Puppet Enterprise before 2.8.0 does not use a "randomized secret" in the CAS client config file (cas_client_config.yml) when upgrading from older 1.2.x or 2.0.x versions, which allows remote attackers to obtain console access via a crafted cookie.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

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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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
puppet	puppet_enterprise	`{"endIncluding":"2.7.2"}`
puppet	puppet_enterprise	`2.0.0`
puppet	puppet_enterprise	`2.5.1`
puppet	puppet_enterprise	`2.5.2`
puppetlabs	puppet	`1.0.0`
puppetlabs	puppet	`1.1.0`
puppetlabs	puppet	`1.2.0`
puppetlabs	puppet	`2.5.0`
puppetlabs	puppet	`2.6.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-310

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

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