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CVE-2013-2716

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2013-04-10 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-310

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.

Affected products

• Puppet Enterprise: through 2.7.2; 2.0.0, 2.5.1, 2.5.2
• Puppetlabs Puppet: 1.0.0, 1.1.0, 1.2.0, 2.5.0, 2.6.0

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/52862
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/83171
• https://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2013-2716/
• http://secunia.com/advisories/52862
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/83171
• https://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2013-2716/

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