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CVE-2016-2785

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-06-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-284

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.

Affected products

• Puppet Agent: 4.0.0, 4.0.0-rc1, 4.0.0-rc2, 4.0.0-rc3, 4.1.0, 4.2.0 (+8)
• Puppet Agent: 1.4.1
• Puppet server: 2.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.2.0, 2.3.0 (+1)

References

• https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/pull/4921/commits/8d2ce797db265720f0a20d1d46ee2757b4e4f6b2
• https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-2785
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-02
• https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/pull/4921/commits/8d2ce797db265720f0a20d1d46ee2757b4e4f6b2
• https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-2785
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-02

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