Upstream information

CVE-2016-2786 at MITRE

Description

The pxp-agent component in Puppet Enterprise 2015.3.x before 2015.3.3 and Puppet Agent 1.3.x before 1.3.6 does not properly validate server certificates, which might allow remote attackers to spoof brokers and execute arbitrary commands via a crafted certificate.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 7.5
Vector AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial
CVSS v3 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 9.8
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact High
Availability Impact High
CVSSv3 Version 3
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 983729 [RESOLVED / UPSTREAM]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.


Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products under general support and receiving all security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 puppet Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Advanced Systems Management 12 puppet Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 puppet Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 puppet Not affected
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 puppet Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1 puppet Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2 puppet Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3 puppet Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP4 puppet Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 LTSS puppet Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 puppet Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 LTSS puppet Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-LTSS puppet Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 puppet Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS puppet Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 puppet Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 puppet Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 puppet Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 puppet Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 puppet Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4 puppet Not affected


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Mon Jun 6 17:41:03 2016
CVE page last modified: Fri Oct 13 19:07:59 2023