| Name | CVE-2016-5714 |
| Description | 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." |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| puppet (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 3.7.2-4+deb8u1 | fixed |
| stretch | 4.8.2-5 | fixed |
| buster | 5.5.10-4 | fixed |
| bullseye | 5.5.22-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| puppet | source | wheezy | (not affected) | | | |
| puppet | source | jessie | (not affected) | | | |
| puppet | source | (unstable) | 4.8.0-1 | | | |
Notes
[jessie] - puppet <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
[wheezy] - puppet <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
https://puppet.com/security/cve/pxp-agent-oct-2016
triaged away in Ubuntu: "Default configurations of FOSS Puppet Agent are not vulnerable."
gentoo released a fix: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-12
rosetta stone for puppet version numbers: https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/4.10/about_agent.html