Vulnerability Report

CVE-2016-5715

Title: Puppet Puppet Enterprise

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2016-5715.

CWE Category CWE-601

Published Date Jan 12, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.1 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.69%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2016-5715: Open redirect vulnerability in the Console in Puppet Enterprise 2015.x and 2016.x before 2016.4.0 allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks via a // (slash slash) followed by a domain in the redirect parameter. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-6501.

Impacted Vendors

puppet 1

puppetlabs 1

Reference Links

http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/PUPPET-AUTHENTICATION-REDIRECT.txt http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/139302/Puppet-Enterprise-Web-Interface-Open-Redirect.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/539618/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93846 https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-5715 http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/PUPPET-AUTHENTICATION-REDIRECT.txt http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/139302/Puppet-Enterprise-Web-Interface-Open-Redirect.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/539618/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93846 https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-5715

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.1

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

REQUIRED

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

CHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns