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CVE-2016-5716

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-08-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-134

Description

The console in Puppet Enterprise 2015.x and 2016.x prior to 2016.4.0 includes unsafe string reads that potentially allows for remote code execution on the console node.

Affected products

• Puppet Enterprise: 2015.2.0, 2015.2.1, 2015.2.2, 2015.2.3, 2015.3.0, 2015.3.1 (+6)

References

• https://puppet.com/security/cve/pe-console-oct-2016
• https://puppet.com/security/cve/pe-console-oct-2016

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