CVE Catalog
CVE-2016-5713
CriticalSummary
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.
Risk Assessment
Organizations may be exposed to the execution of unauthorized code, potentially leading to serious security breaches.
Recommendation
It is recommended to upgrade Puppet Agent to version 1.6.0 or later to mitigate this vulnerability.
Original NVD description (English source)
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.