CVE-2026-8804CWE-312CWE-313

Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information for Puppet Resource API

Medium · published July 3, 2026

CVSS v4.0
6.7
EPSS
0%
Percentile
1.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
6.7 · MEDIUM
Vector
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
EPSS
0.00107 · 1.2th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-312 · Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information; CWE-313 · Cleartext Storage in a File or on Disk
Published
2026-07-03T07:40Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 03 JUL 07:40Z
    Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information for Puppet Resource API
    cvelistv5