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Vulnerability details: VCID-bt3p-h1js-53gg
Vulnerability ID VCID-bt3p-h1js-53gg
Aliases CVE-2016-5713
Summary 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.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 8.8
Risk 4.4
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
System Score Found at
epss 0.0112 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-5713
epss 0.0112 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-5713
epss 0.0112 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-5713
epss 0.0112 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-5713
epss 0.0112 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-5713
epss 0.0112 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-5713
epss 0.0112 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-5713
epss 0.0112 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-5713
epss 0.0112 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-5713
cvssv2 7.5 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5713
cvssv3 9.8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5713
Reference id Reference type URL
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-5713
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-5713
https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-5713
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_agent:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_agent:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2016-5713 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5713
No exploits are available.
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5713
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

network

high

medium

low

multiple

single

none

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5713
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.78185
EPSS Score 0.0112
Published At April 1, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-04-01T16:32:06.381571+00:00 Debian Oval Importer Import https://www.debian.org/security/oval/oval-definitions-bullseye.xml.bz2 38.0.0