CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-6514

7.8 HIGH Published 2018-06-11 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-06-11
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-426

Description

In Puppet Agent 1.10.x prior to 1.10.13, Puppet Agent 5.3.x prior to 5.3.7, Puppet Agent 5.5.x prior to 5.5.2, Facter on Windows is vulnerable to a DLL preloading attack, which could lead to a privilege escalation.

Affected configurations

• puppet puppet (>= 1.10.0 < 1.10.13) • puppet puppet (>= 5.3.0 < 5.3.7) • puppet puppet (>= 5.5.0 < 5.5.2)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-426 Untrusted Search Path weakness

References