CVE-2018-6515

published 2018-06-11

CVE-2018-6515: 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 on Windows only, with a specially crafted…

Priority P3 37 high 7.8 CVSS 3.0

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

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 on Windows only, with a specially crafted configuration file an attacker could get pxp-agent to load arbitrary code with privilege escalation.

Affected

5 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_agent	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.0 7.8 HIGH CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 6.8 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

vendor_debian 7.8 LOW

vendor_redhat 7.8 HIGH

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