Bug 1588925 (CVE-2018-6515)

Summary: CVE-2018-6515 puppet-agent: pxp-agent attempts to configure OpenSSL from uncontrolled location
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Adam Mariš <amaris>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: bcourt, bkearney, jmatthew, mmccune, mrike, ohadlevy, rchan, tjay, tsanders
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Description Adam Mariš 2018-06-08 06:48:46 UTC 
On Windows only, with a specially crafted configuration file an attacker could get pxp-agent to load arbitrary code with privilege escalation.

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https://puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6515
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2018-06-08 06:55:59 UTC 
Statement:

This issue did not affect the versions of puppet-agent as shipped with Red Hat Satellite 6 as this issue is specific to Windows platform only.