CVE-2016-2786

Publication date 10 June 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
puppet	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	15.10 wily	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected
	12.04 LTS precise	Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

pxp-agent not in Debian/Ubuntu

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 9.8 · Critical

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H