What is CVE-2015-7328?

CVE-2015-7328 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Puppet Enterprise, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 4.7/10. Published 2016-01-08.

How severe is CVE-2015-7328?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.7 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Puppet Enterprise

CVE-2015-7328

Puppet Server in Puppet Enterprise before 3.8.x before 3.8.3 and 2015.2.x before 2015.2.3 uses world-readable permissions for the private key of the Certification Authority (CA) certificate during the initial installation and configuration, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

Published 2016-01-08 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.7 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.002 (6.0th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 6th percentile — 6.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.002 · newest: 0.002 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Puppet Enterprise — versions 3.8.0, 3.8.1, 3.8.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2015-7328 (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2015-7328?: CVE-2015-7328 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Puppet Enterprise, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 4.7/10. Published 2016-01-08.
How severe is CVE-2015-7328?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.7 out of 10.