Bug 1588926 (CVE-2018-6514)

Summary: CVE-2018-6514 puppet-agent: Facter tries to load DLLs from the current working directory
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Adam Mariš <amaris>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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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 06:51:51 UTC 
Facter on Windows is vulnerable to a DLL preloading attack, which could lead to a privilege escalation.

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https://puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6514
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2018-06-08 06:56:06 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.