ubuntu-cve-2018-6508
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2018-02-09 20:29
Modified
2026-05-20 14:50
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.
Severity
8.0 (High)
N/A (UNKNOWN)
References
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