VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2016-5713

CVSS score9.8 CRITICAL
EPSS probability2.02%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2017-12-06
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-94: Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

Primary references