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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 9.8 Critical

Status

Modified - security@puppet.com

Published

2017-12-06

Last modified

2024-09-17

Weaknesses

CWE-94

Affected products

• Puppet Agent (Puppet)

References

• https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-5713