Unauthorized Endpoint Access Affecting puppet package, versions >=4.0.0, <4.4.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.65% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUBY-PUPPET-20331
  • published28 Feb 2017
  • disclosed26 Apr 2016
  • creditPuppet Labs

Introduced: 26 Apr 2016

CVE-2016-2785  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade puppet to version 4.4.2 or higher.

Overview

puppet is an automated configuration management tool. Affected versions of the package are vulnerable to Unauthorized Endpoint Access due to not decoding correctly specific character combinations. Malicious users could potentially access endpoints otherwise restricted by auth.conf rules.

CVSS Scores

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