CVE-2018-6515: Puppet

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Puppet Puppet: from 1.10.0, before 1.10.13 (fixed in 1.10.13); from 5.3.0, before 5.3.7 (fixed in 5.3.7); from 5.5.0, before 5.5.2 (fixed in 5.5.2)

Published 2018-06-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.