CVE-2016-2785

highpriority · track · 40EPSS 0.029 · 87 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

2.89% (87th) EPSS

CVSS 7.5 · high

Is it mine?

21 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

9.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · high–critical · 7.5–9.8

v2.07.5highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 6.4

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 5.9

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.19criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-284USprimaryCWE-284US

affected products (21)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
puppet puppet= 4.0.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppet puppet= 4.1.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppet puppet= 4.2.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppet puppet= 4.2.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppet puppet= 4.2.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppet puppet= 4.2.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppet puppet= 4.3.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppet puppet= 4.3.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppet puppet= 4.3.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppet puppet= 4.4.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppet puppet= 4.4.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppet puppet agent= 1.4.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_agent:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppet puppet server= 2.0.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppet puppet server= 2.1.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppet puppet server= 2.1.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppet puppet server= 2.1.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppet puppet server= 2.2.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppet puppet server= 2.3.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppet puppet server= 2.3.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-pqj5-7r86-64fvPuppet Improper Access Control2022-05-13ghsa · osvUS
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.

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Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2016-06-10modified 2026-06-17

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references (9)

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