CVE-2016-5713
9.8
CRITICAL
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 1.1%
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.
How to fix CVE-2016-5713
To remediate CVE-2016-5713, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/puppet—upgrade to 4.7.0-1 or later
Is CVE-2016-5713 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 1.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 4.7.0-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |