Puppet Puppet Enterprise

CVE-2016-9686
MEDIUM 5.3

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 1.27 % · percentile 70 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
puppet
NVD status
Modified

Description

The Puppet Communications Protocol (PCP) Broker incorrectly validates message header sizes. An attacker could use this to crash the PCP Broker, preventing commands from being sent to agents. This is resolved in Puppet Enterprise 2016.4.3 and 2016.5.2.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.0MEDIUM 5.3CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:LNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 5.0AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:PNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Puppet · Puppet Enterpriseaffected 2015.3.x ; affected 2016.x prior to 2016.4.3 ; affected 2016.5.1.

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD