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.

Related CVEs

CVE-2018-6508

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-j433-wpfx-cxg3

Published

May 13, 2022 1:04 AM

Last Modified

May 13, 2022 1:04 AM

CVSS Score

7.5 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Unknown

Primary Package

Unknown

GitHub Reviewed

✗ No

Dataset

Last updated: September 12, 2025 6:34 AM

Data from GitHub Advisory Database. This information is provided for research and educational purposes.