CVE-2016-5713

NameCVE-2016-5713
DescriptionVersions 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
puppetsourcewheezy(not affected)
puppetsourcejessie(not affected)
puppetsource(unstable)4.7.0-1

Notes

[jessie] - puppet <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
[wheezy] - puppet <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
Puppet Agent 1.3.0 (puppet: 4.3.0) - 1.5.x affected
Resolved in Puppet Agent 1.6.0 (4.6.0)
https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-5713
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