{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-6515 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2018-6515 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2018-6515 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Puppet Agent, published on 11 Jun 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2018-6515 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2018-6515 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Puppet Agent, published on 11 Jun 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-6515 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Puppet Agent. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-6515/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-6515/index.md)","id":"CVE-2018-6515","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-6515/index.md","name":"CVE-2018-6515","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-5xw6-x436-6c39"],"analysis":{"component_type":"desktop_application","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["code_execution","privilege_escalation"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Puppet Agent","requires_auth":"none","summary":"An attacker can execute arbitrary code and escalate privileges on Windows systems by providing a specially crafted configuration file to the Puppet Agent.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"code_injection"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"puppet","cpe":[{"product":"puppet","vendor":"puppet"}],"cvss":{"score":7.8,"severity":"high","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-20","name":"Improper Input Validation"}],"description":"Puppet Agent 1.10.x prior to 1.10.13, Puppet Agent 5.3.x prior to 5.3.7, and Puppet Agent 5.5.x prior to 5.5.2 on Windows only, with a specially crafted configuration file an attacker could get pxp-agent to load arbitrary code with privilege escalation.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":false,"headline":"Code injection in Puppet Agent","id":"CVE-2018-6515","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"code_injection","year":"2018"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":1,"next":{"headline":"Code injection in pe-client-tools","id":"CVE-2018-6516"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Privilege escalation in Puppet Agent","id":"CVE-2018-6514"},"products":["Puppet Agent"],"published":"2018-06-11","related":[{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Puppet Improper Access Control","id":"CVE-2016-2785","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2016-06-10"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"SQL injection in Puppet DB","id":"CVE-2021-27021","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2021-07-20"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Privilege escalation in Puppet Enterprise and Puppet Agent","id":"CVE-2018-6513","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2018-06-11"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Privilege escalation in Puppet Agent","id":"CVE-2018-6514","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2018-06-11"},{"cvss_score":7.5,"headline":"Puppet Improper Input Validation vulnerability","id":"CVE-2013-1655","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2013-03-20"},{"cvss_score":6.9,"headline":"Puppet Privilege Escallation","id":"CVE-2012-1053","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2012-05-29"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-09-16","vendors":["Puppet"]},"summary":"An attacker can execute arbitrary code and escalate privileges on Windows systems by providing a specially crafted configuration file to the Puppet Agent.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-6515/"}