CVE-2016-5713
CRITICAL9.8EPSS 1.1%Published: 12/6/2017Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2016-5713
Description
Versions of Puppet Agent prior to 1.6.0 included a version of the Puppet Execution Protocol (PXP) agent that passed environment variables through to Puppet runs. This could allow unauthorized code to be loaded. This bug was first introduced in Puppet Agent 1.3.0.
Affected packages (1)
- Debian/puppetfrom 0, < 4.7.0-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |