CVE-2016-5713

9.8 criticalEPSS 2.0%

Versions of Puppet Agent prior to 1.6.0 included a version of the Puppet Execution Protocol (PXP) agent that passed environment variables through to Puppet runs. This could allow unauthorized code to be loaded. This bug was first introduced in Puppet Agent 1.3.0.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

9.8 critical

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 2.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 80% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-94
Published: 2017-12-06
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

puppet:puppet_agent

References

https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-5713
https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-5713

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