CVE-2016-2786

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% 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-20

Description

The pxp-agent component in Puppet Enterprise 2015.3.x before 2015.3.3 and Puppet Agent 1.3.x before 1.3.6 does not properly validate server certificates, which might allow remote attackers to spoof brokers and execute arbitrary commands via a crafted certificate.

Affected products

Puppet Agent: 1.3.0, 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.4, 1.3.5
Puppet Enterprise: 2015.3.0, 2015.3.2

References

https://puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2786
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-02
https://puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2786
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-02

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