Arbitrary Code Execution and Privilege Escalation in Puppet PE Client Tools on Windows

Arbitrary Code Execution and Privilege Escalation in Puppet PE Client Tools on Windows

CVE-2018-6516 · MEDIUM Severity

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

On Windows only, with a specifically crafted configuration file an attacker could get Puppet PE client tools (aka pe-client-tools) 16.4.x prior to 16.4.6, 17.3.x prior to 17.3.6, and 18.1.x prior to 18.1.2 to load arbitrary code with privilege escalation.

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