Detections
Analytics
CVE-2016-5714
high
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."
References
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-12
https://puppet.com/security/cve/pxp-agent-oct-2016