CVE-2016-5713

Versions of Puppet Agent prior to 1.6.0 included a version of the Puppet Execution Protocol (PXP) agent that passed environment variables through to Puppet runs. This could allow unauthorized code to be loaded. This bug was first introduced in Puppet Agent 1.3.0.

• CWE-94

• https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-5713Vendor Advisory
• https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-5713Vendor Advisory

Published

Dec 6, 2017

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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