CVE-2013-1640 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-2013-1640?

CVE-2013-1640 is a critical code injection vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 20 Mar 2013. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The (1) template and (2) inline_template functions in the master server in Puppet before 2.6.18, 2.7.x before 2.7.21, and 3.1.x before 3.1.1, and Puppet Enterprise before 1.2.7 and 2.7.x before 2.7.2 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via a crafted catalog request.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-1640?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Puppet Puppet, Puppet Puppet Enterprise.

How do I fix CVE-2013-1640?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2013-1640 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-1640 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

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• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2013-1640, GHSA-86qh-qpc6-jff7.