VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2018-6508

CVSS score8 HIGH

EPSS probability1.87%

CISA KEVNot currently listed

Published2018-02-09

Last modified2026-06-17

CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

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.

Weakness classification

CWE-134: Use of Externally-Controlled Format String

Primary references

security@puppet.com — Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
security@puppet.com — Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Vendor Advisory