CVE-2018-6508

Name	CVE-2018-6508
Description	Puppet Enterprise 2017.3.x prior to 2017.3.3 are vulnerable to a remote execution bug when a specially crafted string was passed into the facter_task or puppet_conf tasks. This vulnerability only affects tasks in the affected modules, if you are not using puppet tasks you are not affected by this vulnerability.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
puppet-module-puppetlabs-apache (PTS)	buster	3.4.0-1	fixed
	bookworm, bullseye, sid, trixie	5.5.0-2	fixed
puppet-module-puppetlabs-apt (PTS)	buster, bullseye	6.1.1-1	fixed
	bookworm, sid, trixie	9.0.1-1	fixed
puppet-module-puppetlabs-mysql (PTS)	buster	5.3.0-1	fixed
	bullseye	8.1.0-5	fixed
	bookworm, sid, trixie	8.1.0-7	fixed

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

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency
puppet-module-puppetlabs-apache	source	(unstable)	3.0.0-1	unimportant
puppet-module-puppetlabs-apt	source	(unstable)	4.5.1-1	unimportant
puppet-module-puppetlabs-mysql	source	(unstable)	5.3.0-1	unimportant

Notes

https://puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6508
Issue in various puppet modules: facter_task, puppet_conf, apt, apache and mysql modules
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-facter_task/commit/dd37c72e78c8a37e671e20becb05d6ceafdbd81c
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-puppet_conf/commit/ba434605717e16d935cba45ab38ca5866780a36b
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-apt/commit/81879be960d5723016e3d0b4ff155ee704261bbc
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-apache/commit/81bc5119ceced1faa4bf261efa4b7cd3731ef3ef
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-mysql/commit/da3684c79d5fe6ece826e087e8693c75ac40414c
This is only exploitable with Puppet Tasks, which aren't packaged/available in Debian