CVE-2013-1653

Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-03-20 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Puppet before 2.6.18, 2.7.x before 2.7.21, and 3.1.x before 3.1.1, and Puppet Enterprise before 1.2.7 and 2.7.x before 2.7.2, when listening for incoming connections is enabled and allowing access to the "run" REST endpoint is allowed, allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTTP request.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 11.10, 12.04, 12.10
Puppet Agent: from 2.6.0 through 2.6.17; 2.7.2, 2.7.3, 2.7.4, 2.7.5, 2.7.6, 2.7.7 (+10)
Puppet Enterprise: 3.1.0, 2.7.0, 2.7.1
Puppetlabs Puppet: 2.7.0, 2.7.1, 2.7.19, 2.7.20, 2.7.20-rc1, 1.0 (+8)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00004.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00056.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/52596
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1759-1
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2643
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/58446
https://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2013-1653/
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00004.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00056.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/52596
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1759-1
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2643

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