Name: CVE-2018-6508: Use of Externally-Controlled Format String
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2018-02-09T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2018-6508, CWE-134, CVSS 8, EPSS 0.00905

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.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 8
CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Debian	—	Upgrade puppet-module-puppetlabs-aptUpgrade puppet-module-puppetlabs-apacheUpgrade puppet-module-puppetlabs-mysql	Jul 30, 2024	Feb 9, 2018

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CVSS Details

Covered by Rapid7

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