FKIE_CVE-2018-6515

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2018-06-11 20:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 02:01
Severity
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
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.
References
security@puppet.comhttps://puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6515Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6515Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
puppet puppet *
puppet puppet *
puppet puppet *
microsoft windows -
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