CVE-2018-6513 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting multiple versions of Puppet Enterprise and Puppet Agent on Windows. An unprivileged local user could craft custom facts that, when loaded from untrusted paths during the next Puppet run, would execute with elevated privileges. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 8.8, indicating a significant risk of complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While the EPSS score suggests a low probability of exploitation, there is currently no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) and minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 1.10.0, < 1.10.13CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 5.3.0, < 5.3.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 5.5.0, < 5.5.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 2016.4.0, < 2016.4.12CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_enterprise:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 2017.3.0, < 2017.3.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_enterprise:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.