CVE-2016-5713

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Dec 6, 2017
Updated: Sep 17, 2024
Reserved: Jun 16, 2016

Description

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Puppet AgentPuppet	Introduced in 1.3.0, fixed in 1.6.0Affected

References

https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-5713

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