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Puppet Improper Access Control

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 13, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Nov 22, 2023

Package

bundler puppet (RubyGems)

Affected versions

>= 4.0.0, < 4.4.2

Patched versions

4.4.2

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jun 10, 2016
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 13, 2022
Reviewed Jul 28, 2023
Last updated Nov 22, 2023

Severity

Critical
9.8
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2016-2785

GHSA ID

GHSA-pqj5-7r86-64fv

Source code

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