CVE-2016-5713

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.

CVSS v3 9.8 CRITICAL
CVSS v2.0 7.5 HIGH

9.8^/10

CVSS v3 : CRITICAL

Vector : AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

7.5^/10

CVSS v2.0 : HIGH

Vector : AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Exploitability : 10.0 / Impact : 6.4

Access Vector NETWORK

Access Complexity LOW

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact PARTIAL

Integrity Impact PARTIAL

Availability Impact PARTIAL

References

Link	Resource
https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-5713	Vendor Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_agent:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2017-12-06 15:29

Updated : 2017-12-28 17:50

NVD link : CVE-2016-5713

Mitre link : CVE-2016-5713

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2016-5713

JSON object : View

Products Affected

puppet

puppet_agent

CWE

CWE-94

Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

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