SARA / Free Tools / CVE / CVE-2022-3275

CVE-2022-3275 — Command injection is possible in the puppetlabs-apt module prior to version 9

Command injection is possible in the puppetlabs-apt module prior to version 9.0.0. A malicious actor is able to exploit this vulnerability only if they are able to provide unsanitized input to the module. This condition is rare in most deployments of Puppet and Puppet Enterprise.

CVSS
8.4 HIGH
EPSS
3.01% (top 13.60%)
CWE
CWE-78
Published
2022-10-07T00:00:00.000Z
Last modified
2024-08-03T01:07:06.418Z
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

01What is this vulnerability?

Command injection is possible in the puppetlabs-apt module prior to version 9.0.0. A malicious actor is able to exploit this vulnerability only if they are able to provide unsanitized input to the module. This condition is rare in most deployments of Puppet and Puppet Enterprise.

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
Puppetpuppetlabsapt — unspecified

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

05Technical details

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

06Detection signatures

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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

09References

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