CVE-2013-1653: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 5.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Puppet before 2.6.18, 2.7.x before 2.7.21, and 3.1.x before 3.1.1, and Puppet Enterprise before 1.2.7 and 2.7.x before 2.7.2, when listening for incoming connections is enabled and allowing access to the "run" REST endpoint is allowed, allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTTP request.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 11.10 only; version 12.04 only; version 12.10 only
• Puppet Puppet: from 2.6.0, up to and including 2.6.17; version 2.7.2 only; version 2.7.3 only; version 2.7.4 only; version 2.7.5 only; version 2.7.6 only; …
• Puppet Puppet Enterprise: version 3.1.0 only; version 2.7.0 only; version 2.7.1 only
• Puppetlabs Puppet: version 2.7.0 only; version 2.7.1 only; version 2.7.19 only; version 2.7.20 only; version 1.0 only; version 1.1 only; …

Published 2013-03-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.