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National Vulnerability Database

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CVE-2018-6513 Detail

Description

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.


Metrics

 
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CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST CVSS score
NIST: NVD
Base Score:  8.8 HIGH
Vector:  CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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Hyperlink Resource
https://puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6513 Vendor Advisory 
https://puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6513 Vendor Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-426 Untrusted Search Path cwe source acceptance level NIST  

Known Affected Software Configurations Switch to CPE 2.2

Configuration 1 ( hide )
 cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
   Show Matching CPE(s) 		From (including)
1.10.0		Up to (excluding)
1.10.13
 cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
   Show Matching CPE(s) 		From (including)
5.3.0		Up to (excluding)
5.3.7
 cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
   Show Matching CPE(s) 		From (including)
5.5.0		Up to (excluding)
5.5.2
 cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_enterprise:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
   Show Matching CPE(s) 		From (including)
2016.4.0		Up to (excluding)
2016.4.12
 cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_enterprise:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
   Show Matching CPE(s) 		From (including)
2017.3.0		Up to (excluding)
2017.3.7
 cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_enterprise:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
   Show Matching CPE(s) 		From (including)
2018.1.0		Up to (excluding)
2018.1.1

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2018-6513
NVD Published Date:
06/11/2018
NVD Last Modified:
11/20/2024
Source:
Perforce