CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-6516

7.8 HIGH Published 2018-06-14 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-06-14
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

Description

On Windows only, with a specifically crafted configuration file an attacker could get Puppet PE client tools (aka pe-client-tools) 16.4.x prior to 16.4.6, 17.3.x prior to 17.3.6, and 18.1.x prior to 18.1.2 to load arbitrary code with privilege escalation.

Affected configurations

• puppet puppet enterprise client tools (>= 16.4.0 < 16.4.6) • puppet puppet enterprise client tools (>= 17.3.0 < 17.3.6) • puppet puppet enterprise client tools (>= 18.1.0 < 18.1.2)

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