CVE-2016-5713

CVSS V2 High 7.5 CVSS V3 Critical 9.8

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.

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2016-5713

Assigner
security@puppet.com

Vulnerability Status
Analyzed

Published Version
2017-12-06T15:29:00

Last Modified Date
2017-12-28T17:50:38

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-94	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/94.html

CPE Configuration (Product)

CPE	Vulnerable	Operator	Version Start	Version End
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_agent::::::::	1	OR	1.3.0	1.6.0

CVSS Version 2

Version
2.0

Vector String
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Access Vector
NETWORK

Access Compatibility
LOW

Authentication
NONE

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL

Integrity Impact
PARTIAL

Availability Impact
PARTIAL

Base Score
7.5

Severity
HIGH

Exploitability Score
10

Impact Score
6.4

CVSS Version 3

Version
3.0

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK

Attack Compatibility
LOW

Privileges Required
NONE

User Interaction
NONE

Scope
UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact
HIGH

Availability Impact
HIGH

Base Score
9.8

Base Severity
CRITICAL

Exploitability Score
3.9

Impact Score
5.9

References

Reference URL	Reference Tags
https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-5713	Vendor Advisory

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5713
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-5713

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2022-05-10 18:54:21				Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-02 23:44:12	2017-12-06T15:29Z	2017-12-06T15:29:00	CVE Published Date	updated
2022-12-02 23:44:12		2017-12-28T17:50:38	CVE Modified Date	updated
2022-12-02 23:44:12		Analyzed	Vulnerability Status	updated