CVE-2026-85979CWE-20CWE-269CWE-78command-injectionprivilege-escalation

CVE-2026-85979

published September 11, 2026

CVSS
8.6
EPSS
1%
Percentile
69.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Affected versions of Puppet Enterprise contain a command injection vulnerability. An authenticated user with Puppet administrative privileges can inject arbitrary shell commands by providing a specially crafted value for this parameter, which is passed to a shell execution context without sufficient sanitization. Because the resulting commands are executed with root privileges, successful exploitation can lead to full compromise of the affected system.

It affects Puppet Enterprise 2023.8.0 through 2023.8.10 and Puppet Enterprise 2025.0.0 through 2025.11.2.

This has been resolved in Puppet Enterprise 2023.8.11 and Puppet Enterprise 2025.11.3.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
8.6 · NONE
CVSS v4.0
8.6 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.01286 · 69.9th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation; CWE-269 · Improper Privilege Management; CWE-78 · Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')
Published
2026-09-11T19:17Z
References (1)
https://portal.perforce.com/s/cve/a91Qi000003CybNIAS/command-injection-in-puppet-enterprise · [email protected]
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 13 SEP 03:23Z
    EPSS moved — → 1%
    epss
  • 11 SEP 14:40Z
    Affected versions of Puppet Enterprise contain a command injection vulnerability in the handling of the java_keystore_passwd parameter
    cvelistv5