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.
problem types: Privilege Escalation
affected:
{
product: Puppet Agent
vendor: Puppet
versions:
status: affected, version: Introduced in 1.3.0, fixed in 1.6.0
}