CVE-2016-5713 affects Puppet Agent versions prior to 1.6.0, specifically those from 1.3.0 onwards, due to a flaw in the Puppet Execution Protocol (PXP) agent that allowed environment variables to be passed to Puppet runs. This critical vulnerability (CVSS 9.8) enables unauthorized code loading, posing a high risk to confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 1.3.0, < 1.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_agent:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.