CVE-2016-5715

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2017-01-12 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-601

Description

Open redirect vulnerability in the Console in Puppet Enterprise 2015.x and 2016.x before 2016.4.0 allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks via a // (slash slash) followed by a domain in the redirect parameter. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-6501.

Affected products

Puppet Enterprise: from 2015.2.0 through 2015.3.3; from 2016.1.1 through 2016.4.0

References

http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/PUPPET-AUTHENTICATION-REDIRECT.txt
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/139302/Puppet-Enterprise-Web-Interface-Open-Redirect.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/539618/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93846
https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-5715
http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/PUPPET-AUTHENTICATION-REDIRECT.txt
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/139302/Puppet-Enterprise-Web-Interface-Open-Redirect.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/539618/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93846
https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-5715

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