OS Command Injection Affecting puppet-mysql package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.87% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-PUPPETMYSQL-5241534
  • published27 Mar 2023
  • disclosed5 Feb 2018

Introduced: 5 Feb 2018

CVE-2018-6508  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-78  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 puppet-mysql.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream puppet-mysql package and not the puppet-mysql package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

Puppet Enterprise 2017.3.x prior to 2017.3.3 are vulnerable to a remote execution bug when a specially crafted string was passed into the facter_task or puppet_conf tasks. This vulnerability only affects tasks in the affected modules, if you are not using puppet tasks you are not affected by this vulnerability.