CVE-2018-6508 Code injection in Puppet Enterprise
Remote attackers can execute arbitrary code via crafted strings in Puppet tasks, affecting users who utilize specific Puppet modules.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2018-6508?
CVE-2018-6508 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Puppet Puppet Enterprise, published on 9 Feb 2018. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
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.
Weakness: CWE-134
Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-6508?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Puppet Puppet Enterprise.
How do I fix CVE-2018-6508?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.
Is CVE-2018-6508 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-6508 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Puppet Puppet Enterprise
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2018-6508, GHSA-j433-wpfx-cxg3, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-6508.