CVE-2015-4100
Puppet Enterprise 3.7.x and 3.8.0 might allow remote authenticated users to manage certificates...
Puppet Enterprise 3.7.x and 3.8.0 might allow remote authenticated users to manage certificates for arbitrary nodes by leveraging a client certificate trusted by the master, aka a "Certificate Authority Reverse Proxy Vulnerability."
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- High
- Privileges needed
- Low
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- High
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
NVD Score used
Puppet Enterprise 3.7.x and 3.8.0 might allow remote authenticated users to manage certificates for arbitrary nodes by leveraging a client certificate trusted by the master, aka a "Certificate Authority Reverse Proxy Vulnerability."
- Record
CVE-2015-4100- CVSS 3.0
- 6.8 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H - CVSS 2.0
- 4.9 Medium
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:P - Weakness
- CWE-295
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
CVE List No score
Puppet Enterprise 3.7.x and 3.8.0 might allow remote authenticated users to manage certificates for arbitrary nodes by leveraging a client certificate trusted by the master, aka a "Certificate Authority Reverse Proxy Vulnerability."
- Record
CVE-2015-4100- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2015-4125 No score
Puppet Enterprise 3.7.x and 3.8.0 might allow remote authenticated users to manage certificates for arbitrary nodes by leveraging a client certificate trusted by the master, aka a "Certificate Authority Reverse Proxy Vulnerability."
- Record
EUVD-2015-4125- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-75m2-x9qh-j7qr
Puppet Enterprise 3.7.x and 3.8.0 might allow remote authenticated users to manage certificates...
Puppet Enterprise 3.7.x and 3.8.0 might allow remote authenticated users to manage certificates for arbitrary nodes by leveraging a client certificate trusted by the master, aka a "Certificate Authority Reverse Proxy Vulnerability."
- Record
GHSA-75m2-x9qh-j7qr- CVSS 3.0
- 6.8 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H - Weakness
- CWE-295
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| aliases | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2015-4100 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.8) in Puppet Enterprise, published December 21, 2017. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.70%, the 53rd percentile. No source names a fixed version.