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Vulnerabilities / CVE-2016-2785

critical

CVE-2016-2785

puppet: incorrect URL decoding

Published Modified CWE 284
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
GHSA9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat5.0AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD, GHSA, Ruby Advisory DB. Rated lower by Red Hat (low).

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.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
rubygems::GitHub Security Advisory RubyGemspuppet4.4.2
rubygems::Ruby Advisory Databasepuppet>= 4.4.2
Red Hatpuppet, puppet-serverno fix listed
Show all 4 entries from 3 sources
SourcePackageFixed in
rubygems::GitHub Security Advisory RubyGemspuppet4.4.2
rubygems::Ruby Advisory Databasepuppet>= 4.4.2
Red Hatpuppetno fix listed
Red Hatpuppet-serverno fix listed

References

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