Privilege Escalation Affecting puppet package, versions <5.3.7 >=5.4.0, <5.5.2
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.1% (42nd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-PUPPET-22030
- published 17 Jun 2018
- disclosed 7 Jun 2018
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 7 Jun 2018
CVE-2018-6513 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade puppet to versions 5.3.7, 5.5.2 or higher.
Overview
puppet is a Server automation framework and application.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Privilege Escalation. An unprivileged user on Windows agents could write custom facts that can escalate privileges on the next puppet run.