CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-8804

6.7 MEDIUM Published 2026-07-03 Modified 2026-07-06 Official page ↗
Status
Awaiting Analysis
Published
2026-07-03
Last modified
2026-07-06
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
6.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
Weaknesses
CWE-312, CWE-313

Description

Puppet resource_api (shipped in Puppet Core 8.x and Puppet Enterprise 2023.8.x and 2025.x) does not preserve the sensitive flag on parameters defined via the resource-api, causing values such as passwords to be stored in cleartext in the agent's local transaction state cache. Affected versions of the resource_api module include all versions between 1.5.0 - 1.9.1 and 2.0.0 The issue was fixed in puppet resource_api 1.9.2 and 2.0.1 released with Puppet Core 8.20.0 and PE 2023.8.10 & PE 2025.11.0.

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-312 Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information weakness
  • CWE-313 Cleartext Storage in a File or on Disk weakness

References