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CVE-2018-6511 — A cross-site scripting vulnerability in Puppet Enterprise Console of Puppet Ente

A cross-site scripting vulnerability in Puppet Enterprise Console of Puppet Enterprise allows a user to inject scripts into the Puppet Enterprise Console when using the Puppet Enterprise Console. Affected releases are Puppet Puppet Enterprise: 2017.3.x versions prior to 2017.3.6.

CVSS

5.4 MEDIUM

EPSS

0.25% (top 51.60%)

CWE

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Published

2018-05-08T18:00:00.000Z

Last modified

2024-09-16T20:32:57.469Z

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

01What is this vulnerability?

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Puppet	Puppet Enterprise	2017.3.x

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

Ask SARA in chat to draft a starting detection for this CVE in your stack of choice.

07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

Published: 2018-05-08T18:00:00.000Z
Last modified: 2024-09-16T20:32:57.469Z

09References

puppet.com — https://puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6511

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