CVE-2018-6513

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    CVE-2018-6513

    Published: 11 Jun 2018Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: Puppet Enterprise 2016.4.x prior to 2016.4.12, Puppet Enterprise 2017.3.x prior to 2017.3.7, Puppet Enterprise 2018.1.x prior to 2018.1.1, Puppet Agent 1.10.x prior to 1.10.13, Puppet Agent 5.3.x prior to 5.3.7, and Puppet Agent 5.5.x prior to 5.5.2, were vulnerable to an attack where an unprivileged user on Windows agents could write custom facts that can escalate privileges on the next puppet run. This was possible through the loading of shared libraries from untrusted paths.

    References: https://puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6513

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 384311c359e43ac56cbb937fca9aba82068fd2d6
    Fixed -7d7fb2e8559571a2da4b6a597c41c0e71a20be78

    Affected versions

    5.3.6
    5.3.5
    5.3.4
    5.3.3
    5.3.1
    5.3.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
    CVE-2018-6513 | CVE-DB