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CVE-2016-5713

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CVE-2016-5713

Published: Dec 6, 2017

Modified: Sep 17, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

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.

VendorProductVersions

Puppet

Puppet Agent

affected
Introduced in 1.3.0, fixed in 1.6.0

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