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Total vulnerabilities in the database

CVE-2018-6513

Puppet Enterprise 2016.4.x prior to 2016.4.12, Puppet Enterprise 2017.3.x prior to 2017.3.7, Puppet Enterprise 2018.1.x prior to 2018.1.1, Puppet Agent 1.10.x prior to 1.10.13, Puppet Agent 5.3.x prior to 5.3.7, and Puppet Agent 5.5.x prior to 5.5.2, were vulnerable to an attack where an unprivileged user on Windows agents could write custom facts that can escalate privileges on the next puppet run. This was possible through the loading of shared libraries from untrusted paths.

  • Published: Jun 11, 2018
  • Updated: Apr 13, 2023
  • CVE: CVE-2018-6513
  • Severity: High
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: High
  • Score: 8.8
  • AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 6.5
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
puppet / puppet 5.5.0 5.5.2
puppet / puppet 1.10.0 1.10.13
puppet / puppet 5.3.0 5.3.7
puppet / puppet_enterprise 2018.1.0 2018.1.1
puppet / puppet_enterprise 2016.4.0 2016.4.12
puppet / puppet_enterprise 2017.3.0 2017.3.7