Bug 1588926 (CVE-2018-6514) - CVE-2018-6514 puppet-agent: Facter tries to load DLLs from the current working directory
Summary: CVE-2018-6514 puppet-agent: Facter tries to load DLLs from the current workin...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2018-6514
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2018-06-08 06:51 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2021-02-17 00:09 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: puppet-agent 1.10.13, puppet-agent 5.3.7, puppet-agent 5.5.2
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Last Closed: 2018-06-08 06:55:59 UTC
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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 
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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.
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