CVE-2015-7224

CRITICAL 9.8CVE-2015-7224 · Published 21/12/2017 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2015-7224 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability affecting puppetlabs-mysql (puppet).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.7%, higher than 77.0% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
puppetlabs-mysql puppet	`≥ 3.1.0, ≤ 3.6.0`	No fix yet

Description

puppetlabs-mysql 3.1.0 through 3.6.0 allow remote attackers to bypass authentication by leveraging creation of a database account without a password when a 'mysql_user' user parameter contains a host with a netmask.

References

puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7224 · Vendor Advisory

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