VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-2785

critical
Published 2016-04-26 · Modified 2024-02-16
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
7.5
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
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2785

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-2785

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/pull/4921/commits/8d2ce797db265720f0a20d1d46ee2757b4e4f6b2

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2785.html

OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbullseyefixed0
debian debianbookwormfixed0
debian debiansidfixed0
debian debiantrixiefixed0

Package impact
EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
ruby RubyGemspuppet<>= 4.4.2>= 4.4.2
ruby RubyGemspuppet>=4.0.0,<4.4.24.4.2

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
puppetpuppet4.0.0
puppetpuppet4.1.0
puppetpuppet4.2.0
puppetpuppet4.2.1
puppetpuppet4.2.2
puppetpuppet4.2.3
puppetpuppet4.3.0
puppetpuppet4.3.1
puppetpuppet4.3.2
puppetpuppet4.4.0
puppetpuppet4.4.1
puppetpuppet_server2.0.0
puppetpuppet_server2.1.0
puppetpuppet_server2.1.1
puppetpuppet_server2.1.2
puppetpuppet_server2.2.0
puppetpuppet_server2.3.0
puppetpuppet_server2.3.1
puppetpuppet_agent1.4.1

References

CWEs

CWE-284

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