Puppetlabs-apt Command Injection

published 2022-10-07 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-42672

cvss: 8.4; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 2.4%; EPSS 2.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 83%
public exploits: 0; none known

Command injection is possible in the puppetlabs-apt module prior to version 9.0.0. A malicious actor is able to exploit this vulnerability only if they are able to provide unsanitized input to the module. This condition is rare in most deployments of Puppet and Puppet Enterprise.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1 distros 1

Puppet puppetlabs-apt 9.0.0

puppet-module-puppetlabs-apt Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 9.0.1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-3275

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-3275 updated 2026-11-05 cvss 7.5

wireshark: Crash in the OPUS protocol dissector that allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 wireshark, wireshark-gnome Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 wireshark, wireshark-gnome Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 wireshark, wireshark-cli Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 wireshark, wireshark-cli
not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.37% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 83% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	8.4	CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	3.1	9.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

Puppet puppetlabs-apt

Classification

Weakness

CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command

References

lists.fedoraproject.org /archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YR5LIOF5VKS4DC2NQWXTMPPXOYJC46XC/
vendor-advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org /archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CH4NUKZKPY4MFQHFBTONJK2AWES4DFDA/
vendor-advisory
puppet.com /security/cve/CVE-2022-3275
vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2022-3275
NVD CVE-2022-3275

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Summary