CVE-2016-5714

Publication date 18 October 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Puppet Enterprise 2015.3.3 and 2016.x before 2016.4.0, and Puppet Agent 1.3.6 through 1.7.0 allow remote attackers to bypass a host whitelist protection mechanism and execute arbitrary code on Puppet nodes via vectors related to command validation, aka "Puppet Execution Protocol (PXP) Command Whitelist Validation Vulnerability."

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
puppet	17.10 artful	Not affected
	17.04 zesty	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

Notes

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Upstream says "Default configurations of FOSS Puppet Agent are not vulnerable."

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.2 · High

Base metrics

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

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.2 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

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