CVE-2018-6513

published 2018-06-11

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…

Priority P3 45 high 8.8 CVSS 3.0

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

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.

Affected

8 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	puppet	—	—
puppet	puppet	>= 1.10.0 < 1.10.13	1.10.13
puppet	puppet	>= 5.3.0 < 5.3.7	5.3.7
puppet	puppet	>= 5.5.0 < 5.5.2	5.5.2
puppet	puppet_enterprise	>= 2016.4.0 < 2016.4.12	2016.4.12
puppet	puppet_enterprise	>= 2017.3.0 < 2017.3.7	2017.3.7
puppet	puppet_enterprise	>= 2018.1.0 < 2018.1.1	2018.1.1
puppet	puppet_enterprise_and_puppet_agent	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.0 8.8 HIGH CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 6.5 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

vendor_debian 8.8 LOW

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