CVE-2015-7328

medium

Published 2016-01-08 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

4.7

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

4.7

Description

Puppet Server in Puppet Enterprise before 3.8.x before 3.8.3 and 2015.2.x before 2015.2.3 uses world-readable permissions for the private key of the Certification Authority (CA) certificate during the initial installation and configuration, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

47%

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

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
sles		affected
debian	bullseye	fixed	`0`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
puppet	puppet_enterprise	`3.8.0`
puppet	puppet_enterprise	`3.8.1`
puppet	puppet_enterprise	`3.8.2`
puppet	puppet_enterprise	`2015.2.0`
puppet	puppet_enterprise	`2015.2.1`
puppet	puppet_enterprise	`2015.2.2`

References

CWEs

CWE-200

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

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