Arbitrary Code Injection The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package puppet  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-PUPPET-620408
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed6 Dec 2017

Introduced: 6 Dec 2017

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

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream puppet package and not the puppet package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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.