ubuntu · CVE-2016-5714

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Priority: medium Published: 2017-10-18 18:29:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:07:04 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-5714 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (puppet), 5 status rows across 5 suites (artful, trusty, upstream, xenial, zesty): not-affected 5.

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."

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