Vulnerability Report

CVE-2013-1640

RCE

Title: Puppet Puppet Enterprise RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2013-1640.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Mar 20, 2013

Modified Date Apr 29, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 9.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.29%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2013-1640: The (1) template and (2) inline_template functions in the master server in Puppet before 2.6.18, 2.7.x before 2.7.21, and 3.1.x before 3.1.1, and Puppet Enterprise before 1.2.7 and 2.7.x before 2.7.2 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via a crafted catalog request.

Impacted Vendors

reductivelabs 1

puppet 2

puppetlabs 1

Reference Links

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00004.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00056.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0710.html http://secunia.com/advisories/52596 http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1759-1 http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2643 https://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2013-1640/ http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00004.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00056.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0710.html http://secunia.com/advisories/52596 http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1759-1 http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2643 https://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2013-1640/

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

9.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2013-1640 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

March 20, 2013 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.