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.


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  "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.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2018-6508",
  "modified": "2026-05-20T14:50:33Z",
  "published": "2018-02-09T20:29:00Z",
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}



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