UBUNTU-CVE-2018-6508

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2018-6508

    Published: 9 Feb 2018Last Modified: 20 May 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-6508

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-6508, https://puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6508, https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-facter_task/commit/dd37c72e78c8a37e671e20becb05d6ceafdbd81c, https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-puppet_conf/commit/ba434605717e16d935cba45ab38ca5866780a36b, https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-apt/commit/81879be960d5723016e3d0b4ff155ee704261bbc, https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-apache/commit/81bc5119ceced1faa4bf261efa4b7cd3731ef3ef, https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-mysql/commit/da3684c79d5fe6ece826e087e8693c75ac40414c, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-6508

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: puppet-module-puppetlabs-apache

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/puppet-module-puppetlabs-apache?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1.1.1-1

    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