Critical
Security advisory
MCollective 2.7.0 and 2.8.x before 2.8.9, as used in Puppet Enterprise, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors related to the mco ping command.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2016-2788
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:32 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
MCollective 2.7.0 and 2.8.x before 2.8.9, as used in Puppet Enterprise, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors related to the mco ping command.
osv:CVE-2016-2788
Complete source record
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