CVE-2018-6513

Summary

CVECVE-2018-6513
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-06-11 20:29:00 UTC
Updated2022-01-24 16:46:00 UTC
DescriptionPuppet 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-426

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Puppet Puppet All All All All
Application Puppet Puppet All All All All
Application Puppet Puppet All All All All
Application Puppet Puppet All All All All
Application Puppet Puppet Enterprise All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
CVE-2018-6513 - Unprivileged User Can Execute Arbitrary Code in Windows | Puppet CONFIRM puppet.com Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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