CVE-2016-2786: Puppet Agent

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Puppet Puppet Agent: version 1.3.0 only; version 1.3.1 only; version 1.3.2 only; version 1.3.4 only; version 1.3.5 only
• Puppet Puppet Enterprise: version 2015.3.0 only; version 2015.3.2 only

Published 2016-06-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.