Puppet Agent Prior to 1.6.0 Vulnerability: Unauthorized Code Execution via Environment Variables

CVE-2016-5713 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

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