Bugzilla – Bug 1080523
VUL-1: CVE-2018-6508: puppet: Unparameterized input in multiple modules can allow a remote user to execute arbitrary code
Last modified: 2018-02-12 07:26:33 UTC
rh#1542831 Puppet Enterprise 2017.3.x prior to 2017.3.3 are vulnerable to a remote execution bug when a specially crafted string was passed into the facter_task or puppet_conf tasks. This vulnerability only affects tasks in the affected modules, if you are not using puppet tasks you are not affected by this vulnerability. References: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1542831 http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2018-6508 http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2018/CVE-2018-6508.html https://puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6508
This issue does not affect core puppet. Only specific modules are affected that are not part of SLE or openSUSE.