Vulnerability CVE-2018-6515

Vulnerability Name:

CVE-2018-6515 (CCN-144719)

Assigned:

2018-06-07

Published:

2018-06-07

Updated:

2018-08-02

Summary:

Puppet Agent 1.10.x prior to 1.10.13, Puppet Agent 5.3.x prior to 5.3.7, and Puppet Agent 5.5.x prior to 5.5.2 on Windows only, with a specially crafted configuration file an attacker could get pxp-agent to load arbitrary code with privilege escalation.

CVSS v3 Severity:

7.8 High (CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
6.8 Medium (Temporal CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C)

Exploitability Metrics:	Attack Vector (AV): Local Attack Complexity (AC): Low Privileges Required (PR): None User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope:	Scope (S): Unchanged
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): High Integrity (I): High Availibility (A): High

8.8 High (CCN CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H)
7.7 High (CCN Temporal CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C)

Exploitability Metrics:	Attack Vector (AV): Local Attack Complexity (AC): Low Privileges Required (PR): Low User Interaction (UI): None
Scope:	Scope (S): Changed
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): High Integrity (I): High Availibility (A): High

CVSS v2 Severity:

6.8 Medium (CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

Exploitability Metrics:	Access Vector (AV): Network Access Complexity (AC): Medium Authentication (Au): None
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): Partial Integrity (I): Partial Availibility (A): Partial

6.8 Medium (CCN CVSS v2 Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)

Exploitability Metrics:	Access Vector (AV): Local Access Complexity (AC): Low Athentication (Au): Single_Instance
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): Complete Integrity (I): Complete Availibility (A): Complete

Vulnerability Type:

CWE-20

Vulnerability Consequences:

Gain Privileges

References:

Source: MITRE
Type: CNA
CVE-2018-6515

Source: XF
Type: UNKNOWN
puppet-cve20186515-priv-esc(144719)

Source: CCN
Type: Puppet Web site
CVE-2018-6515 - pxp-agent attempts to configure OpenSSL from uncontrolled location

Source: CONFIRM
Type: Vendor Advisory
https://puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6515

Vulnerable Configuration:

Configuration 1:

cpe:/a:puppet:puppet:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* (Version >= 1.10.0 and < 1.10.13)

OR cpe:/a:puppet:puppet:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* (Version >= 5.3.0 and < 5.3.7)

OR cpe:/a:puppet:puppet:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* (Version >= 5.5.0 and < 5.5.2)

AND

cpe:/o:microsoft:windows:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Denotes that component is vulnerable

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