Puppet Agent vulnerabilitiesRanked by how likely they are to be used.

Product61 versions
The short answer

Puppet Agent is made by Puppet. We track 8 published vulnerabilities in it, across 61 versions. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. If you run Puppet Agent, keep it on a version the vendor still supports.

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Which Puppet Agent vulnerabilities are being exploited?

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None of Puppet Agent's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.

Exploit likelihood

Which Puppet Agent flaws are most likely to be used?

Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.

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  1. 2.9%

    Puppet Server before 2.3.2 and Ruby puppetmaster in Puppet 4.x before 4.4.2 and in Puppet Agent before 1.4.2 might allow remote attackers to bypass intended auth.conf access restrictions by leveraging incorrect URL...

    CVSS9.8Published10 Jun 2016
  2. 2.8%

    verify_certificate_identity in the OpenSSL extension in Ruby before 2.0.0 patchlevel 645, 2.1.x before 2.1.6, and 2.2.x before 2.2.2 does not properly validate hostnames, which allows remote attackers to spoof...

    CVSS5.9Published29 Nov 2019
  3. 2.2%

    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...

    CVSS7.2Published18 Oct 2017
  4. 2.0%

    Versions of Puppet Agent prior to 1.6.0 included a version of the Puppet Execution Protocol (PXP) agent that passed environment variables through to Puppet runs.

    CVSS9.8Published6 Dec 2017
  5. 1.6%

    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...

    CVSS9.8Published10 Jun 2016
  6. 1.4%

    A flaw was discovered in Puppet Agent and Puppet Server that may result in a leak of HTTP credentials when following HTTP redirects to a different host.

    CVSS9.8Published18 Nov 2021
  7. 1.1%

    A flaw was discovered in Puppet Agent where the agent may silently ignore Augeas settings or may be vulnerable to a Denial of Service condition prior to the first 'pluginsync'.

    CVSS6.5Published18 Nov 2021
  8. 0.8%

    Previously, Puppet operated on a model that a node with a valid certificate was entitled to all information in the system and that a compromised certificate allowed access to everything in the infrastructure.

    CVSS6.5Published19 Feb 2020
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We track 8 published vulnerabilities listed under the name Puppet Agent, across 61 versions.

None of Puppet Agent's vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today.

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