ubuntu · CVE-2016-5713

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Priority: low Published: 2017-12-06 15:29:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:07:04 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2016-5713 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (puppet), 5 status rows across 5 suites (artful, trusty, upstream, xenial, zesty): not-affected 3, ignored 1, released 1.

Description:

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.

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