vulnwire
8.0high

CVE-2018-6508

Puppet Enterprise 2017.3.x prior to 2017.3.3 are vulnerable to a remote execution bug when a specially crafted string was passed into the f…

Published 8 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
8.0
v3.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
1.9%
percentile 79%
Public exploits
0
none known

Puppet Enterprise 2017.3.x prior to 2017.3.3 are vulnerable to a remote execution bug when a specially crafted string was passed into the facter_task or puppet_conf tasks. This vulnerability only affects tasks in the affected modules, if you are not using puppet tasks you are not affected by this vulnerability.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

1.87% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 79% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD3.08.0CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD2.06.0AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • Puppet Puppet Enterprise
  • Puppet puppetlabs/facter_task
  • Puppet puppetlabs/puppet_conf
  • Puppet puppetlabs/apt
  • Puppet puppetlabs/mysql
  • Puppet puppetlabs/apache

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-134 Use of Externally-Controlled Format String

References

  • puppet.com /security/cve/CVE-2018-6508 · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred
  • securityfocus.com /bid/103020 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred

Sources

vulnwire keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA; records that alias each other are merged. Machine-readable: JSON.