CVE-2016-5715: Puppet Enterprise

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Open redirect vulnerability in the Console in Puppet Enterprise 2015.x and 2016.x before 2016.4.0 allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks via a // (slash slash) followed by a domain in the redirect parameter. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-6501.

Affected products

• Puppet Puppet Enterprise: from 2015.2.0, up to and including 2015.3.3; from 2016.1.1, up to and including 2016.4.0

Published 2017-01-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.