CVE-2018-6508

HighCVSS 8.0/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 8.0/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-134

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Feb 9, 2018
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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