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CVE-2016-5713

Publication date 6 December 2017

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
puppet 17.10 artful
Not affected
17.04 zesty Ignored end of life
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

puppet agent 1.3.0 is in puppet 4.3.0

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 9.8 · Critical
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H