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FKIE_CVE-2018-6514

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2018-06-11 20:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 02:01

Severity

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

In Puppet Agent 1.10.x prior to 1.10.13, Puppet Agent 5.3.x prior to 5.3.7, Puppet Agent 5.5.x prior to 5.5.2, Facter on Windows is vulnerable to a DLL preloading attack, which could lead to a privilege escalation.

References

	URL	Tags
	security@puppet.com	https://puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6514	Vendor Advisory
	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6514	Vendor Advisory

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
puppet	puppet	*
puppet	puppet	*
puppet	puppet	*
microsoft	windows	-

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CVE-2018-6514 (GCVE-0-2018-6514)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-06-11 20:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 17:49

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Arbitrary Code Execution

Assigner

puppet

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6514	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Puppet	Puppet Agent	Affected: Puppet Agent 1.10.x prior to 1.10.13, Puppet Agent 5.3.x prior to 5.3.7, Puppet Agent 5.5.x prior to 5.5.2

Date Public

2018-06-11 00:00

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Sightings

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Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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