Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting puppet package, versions <4.7.0-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.26% (66th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-PUPPET-364967
  • published6 Dec 2017
  • disclosed6 Dec 2017

Introduced: 6 Dec 2017

CVE-2016-5713  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:10 puppet to version 4.7.0-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream puppet package and not the puppet package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.