In Puppet Agent 1.10.x prior to 1.10.13, Puppet Agent 5.3.x prior to 5.3.7, Puppet Agent 5.5.x prior to 5.5.2, Facter on Windows is vulnerable to a DLL preloading attack, which could lead to a privilege escalation.
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2018-6514 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
This issue did not affect the versions of puppet-agent as shipped with Red Hat Satellite 6 as this issue is specific to Windows platform only.
NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
| CVSS3 Base Score | 7.5 |
|---|---|
| CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| Attack Vector | Local |
| Attack Complexity | High |
| Privileges Required | Low |
| User Interaction | Required |
| Scope | Changed |
| Confidentiality | High |
| Integrity Impact | High |
| Availability Impact | High |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Satellite 6 | puppet-agent | Not affected |
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