CVE-2016-5714

high

Published 2017-10-18 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

7.2

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.2

Description

Puppet Enterprise 2015.3.3 and 2016.x before 2016.4.0, and Puppet Agent 1.3.6 through 1.7.0 allow remote attackers to bypass a host whitelist protection mechanism and execute arbitrary code on Puppet nodes via vectors related to command validation, aka "Puppet Execution Protocol (PXP) Command Whitelist Validation Vulnerability."

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

81%

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
debian	bullseye	fixed	`4.8.0-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
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`
puppet	puppet_agent	`{"startIncluding":"1.3.6","endIncluding":"1.7.0"}`

References

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.