CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-5713

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2017-12-06 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-12-06
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-94

Description

Versions of Puppet Agent prior to 1.6.0 included a version of the Puppet Execution Protocol (PXP) agent that passed environment variables through to Puppet runs. This could allow unauthorized code to be loaded. This bug was first introduced in Puppet Agent 1.3.0.

Affected configurations

• puppet puppet agent (>= 1.3.0 < 1.6.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code weakness

References