CVE-2016-9686
3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 1.3%
exploitation probability
1.3%top 33% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
The Puppet Communications Protocol (PCP) Broker incorrectly validates message header sizes. An attacker could use this to crash the PCP Broker, preventing commands from being sent to agents. This is resolved in Puppet Enterprise 2016.4.3 and 2016.5.2.
Affected products
Puppet · Puppet Enterprise