CVE-2016-5713

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.

Risk Information

Base Score
9.8
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
1.12

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
Vulnerabilities CVE-2016-5713 are affected in Puppet Agent (x64) 1.5.3Windows
Vulnerabilities CVE-2016-5713 are affected in Puppet Agent 1.5.3Windows

Patch Details

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Patch IDPatch Description
PATCH-342464Puppet Agent (x64) (8.10.0)
PATCH-342463Puppet Agent (8.10.0)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234