CVE-2018-6515 is a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Puppet Agent versions 1.10.x (prior to 1.10.13), 5.3.x (prior to 5.3.7), and 5.5.x (prior to 5.5.2) on Windows. An attacker could leverage a specially crafted configuration file to force pxp-agent to load arbitrary code. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 7.8, indicating a significant impact with high confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise, requiring user interaction but with low attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| 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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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