CVE-2016-5713

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5713
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-5713.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-5713
Downstream
Published
2017-12-06T15:29:00Z
Modified
2025-10-22T18:58:02.634602Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/puppetlabs/puppet-agent

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet-agent
Events

Affected versions

1.*

1.3.0
1.3.1
1.3.2
1.3.3
1.3.4
1.3.5
1.3.6
1.4.0
1.4.1
1.4.2
1.5.0
1.5.1
1.5.2
1.5.3

Git / github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-puppet_agent

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-puppet_agent
Events

Affected versions

1.*

1.3.0
1.3.1
1.3.2
1.4.0
1.4.1
1.5.0