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…

PriorityP349critical9.8CVSS 3.0

AVNACLPRNUINSUCHIHAH

EPSS

2.02%

78.8th percentile

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.

Affected

4 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	puppet	< puppet 4.7.0-1 (bullseye)	puppet 4.7.0-1 (bullseye)
puppet	puppet	>= 0 < 4.7.0-1	4.7.0-1
puppet	puppet_agent	—	—
puppet	puppet_agent	>= 1.3.0 < 1.6.0	1.6.0

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.09.8CRITICALCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.07.5HIGHAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

osv9.8CRITICAL

vendor_debian9.8CRITICAL

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