CVE-2018-6513

11.06.2018, 20:29

Puppet Enterprise 2016.4.x prior to 2016.4.12, Puppet Enterprise 2017.3.x prior to 2017.3.7, Puppet Enterprise 2018.1.x prior to 2018.1.1, Puppet Agent 1.10.x prior to 1.10.13, Puppet Agent 5.3.x prior to 5.3.7, and Puppet Agent 5.5.x prior to 5.5.2, were vulnerable to an attack where an unprivileged user on Windows agents could write custom facts that can escalate privileges on the next puppet run. This was possible through the loading of shared libraries from untrusted paths.

Provider	Type	Base Score	Atk. Vector	Atk. Complexity	Priv. Required	Vector
NIST	NIST	8.8 HIGH	NETWORK	LOW	LOW	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
puppet	CNA	---				---
CVE	ADP	---				---

Base Score

CVSS 3.x

EPSS Score

Percentile: 58%

Vendor	Product	Version
puppet	puppet	1.10.0 ≤ 𝑥 < 1.10.13
puppet	puppet	5.3.0 ≤ 𝑥 < 5.3.7
puppet	puppet	5.5.0 ≤ 𝑥 < 5.5.2
puppet	puppet_enterprise	2016.4.0 ≤ 𝑥 < 2016.4.12
puppet	puppet_enterprise	2017.3.0 ≤ 𝑥 < 2017.3.7
puppet	puppet_enterprise	2018.1.0 ≤ 𝑥 < 2018.1.1

𝑥

= Vulnerable software versions

Debian Releases

Debian Product

Codename

puppet

bullseye

5.5.22-2

fixed

Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-426 - Untrusted Search Path
The application searches for critical resources using an externally-supplied search path that can point to resources that are not under the application's direct control.

References

https://puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6513