CVE-2018-6508

Severity: high (CVSS 8.0 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-02-09 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-134

Description

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.

Affected products

Puppet Enterprise: from 2017.3.0 through 2017.3.2

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103020
https://puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6508
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103020
https://puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6508

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