Vulnerability Report

CVE-2016-5714

RCE

Title: Puppet Puppet Enterprise RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2016-5714.

CWE Category CWE-284

Published Date Oct 18, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.2 CVSS v3.1

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.01%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2016-5714: 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."

Impacted Vendors

puppet 2

puppetlabs 1

Reference Links

https://bugs.gentoo.org/597684 https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-5714 https://puppet.com/security/cve/pxp-agent-oct-2016 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-12 https://bugs.gentoo.org/597684 https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-5714 https://puppet.com/security/cve/pxp-agent-oct-2016 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-12

CVSS v3.1

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

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

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns