CVE-2018-6508
8.0
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 1.9%
Description
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.
How to fix CVE-2018-6508
To remediate CVE-2018-6508, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/puppet-module-puppetlabs-apache—upgrade to 3.0.0-1 or later
- —upgrade to 4.5.1-1 or later
- —upgrade to 5.3.0-1 or later
Is CVE-2018-6508 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 1.9%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (3)
- from 0, < 3.0.0-1
- from 0, < 4.5.1-1
- from 0, < 5.3.0-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH8.0 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |