CVE-2018-6513

HIGH

Puppet Agent 1.10.0-1.10.12 and Puppet Enterprise 2016.4.0-2016.4.11 - Untrusted Search Path

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Puppet Enterprise 2016.4.x prior to 2016.4.12, Puppet Enterprise 2017.3.x prior to 2017.3.7, Puppet Enterprise 2018.1.x prior to 2018.1.1, 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, were vulnerable to an attack where an unprivileged user on Windows agents could write custom facts that can escalate privileges on the next puppet run. This was possible through the loading of shared libraries from untrusted paths.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6513

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0112
EPSS Percentile 61.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-426
Status published
Products (2)
puppet/puppet 1.10.0 - 1.10.13
puppet/puppet_enterprise 2016.4.0 - 2016.4.12
Published Jun 11, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026