CVE-2018-6508: Puppet Enterprise

High severity, CVSS 8.0. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Puppet Puppet Enterprise: from 2017.3.0, up to and including 2017.3.2

Published 2018-02-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.