cve-2016-5713
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-12-06 15:00
Modified
2024-09-17 00:06
Severity ?
Summary
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
security@puppet.comhttps://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-5713Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
PuppetPuppet Agent
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