CVE-2016-5713

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CVSS 3.0

9.8 critical

EPSS

2%p80

Published

Dec 6, 2017 (Dec 6, 2017)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

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.

Vendors: puppet
Products: puppet agent
Weakness: CWE-94
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (2.0%)

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