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CVE-2023-5214

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CVE-2023-5214 describes a critical privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Puppet Bolt versions prior to 3.27.4. This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to achieve full compromise of the system, as indicated by its CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL). Despite its severity, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 3.27.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:bolt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.3
Impact Score
4.7
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.37%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
30.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0037 is in the 7th percentile among its peer group of 36,835 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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.

Media 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: boltFixed in: 3.27.4

Vendor Advisories (1)

rubygemsGHSA-289m-2964-f8q5critical

Puppet Bolt privilege escalation vulnerability

Oct 6, 2023

References

puppet.com / security/cve/cve-2023-5214-privilege-escalation-puppet-bolt
Vendor Advisory