CVE-2018-6508

CVSS V2 Medium 6 CVSS V3 High 8
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2018-6508
  • Assigner
  • security@puppet.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2018-02-09T20:29:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2022-01-24T16:46:03
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-134 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/134.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_enterprise:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 2017.3.0 2017.3.2
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • SINGLE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Integrity Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 6
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 6.8
  • Impact Score
  • 6.4
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • LOW
  • User Interaction
  • REQUIRED
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • HIGH
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 8
  • Base Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 2.1
  • Impact Score
  • 5.9
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6508 Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103020 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6508
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-6508
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 06:36:33 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-03 01:58:09 2018-02-09T20:29Z 2018-02-09T20:29:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-03 01:58:09 2022-01-24T16:46:03 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-03 01:58:09 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated