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
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Puppet | Puppet Enterprise | 2017.3.x prior to 2017.3.4 |
| Puppet | puppetlabs/facter_task | prior to 0.1.5 |
| Puppet | puppetlabs/puppet_conf | prior to 0.1.5 |
| Puppet | puppetlabs/apt | prior to 4.5.1 |
| Puppet | puppetlabs/mysql | prior to 5.2.1 |
| Puppet | puppetlabs/apache | prior to 2.3.1 |
Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.
For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.
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No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.