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CVE-2026-8804

MEDIUM
6.7
CVSS 4.0
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.

Metadata

CVE ID
CVE-2026-8804
State
PUBLISHED
Assigner
Perforce
Reserved
2026-05-18 05:31 UTC
Published
2026-07-03 07:40 UTC
Last updated
2026-07-03 07:43 UTC
Primary CWE
CWE-313
CWE-313 Cleartext storage in a file or on disk
Vendor / Product
Perforce / Puppet Core
Sources
cve.org  ·  NVD

Severity & Metrics

6.7 MEDIUM CVSS 4.0
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
Affected products (2)
VendorProductPlatformVersions
Perforce Puppet Core — 8.11.0 ≤ 8.19.0, 8.0.0 ≤ 8.10.0, 8.20.0
Perforce Puppet Enterprise — 2023.8.0 ≤ 2023.8.9, 2025.0.0 ≤ 2025.10.0, 2023.8.10, 2025.11.0
Weakness (CWE)
CWESourceDescription
CWE-312 cna CWE-312 Cleartext storage of sensitive information
CWE-313 cna CWE-313 Cleartext storage in a file or on disk
CVSS scores (1)
ScoreSeverityVersionSourceVector
6.7 MEDIUM 4.0 cna 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
References (1)
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