CVE-2026-8804 (GCVE-0-2026-8804)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-03 07:40 – Updated: 2026-07-06 15:21
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information for Puppet Resource API
Summary
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.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-07-06 15:21 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
1 reference
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perforce | Puppet Core |
Affected:
8.11.0 , ≤ 8.19.0
(custom)
Affected: 8.0.0 , ≤ 8.10.0 (custom) Unaffected: 8.20.0 (custom) |
guessed | |
| Perforce | Puppet Enterprise |
Affected:
2023.8.0 , ≤ 2023.8.9
(custom)
Affected: 2025.0.0 , ≤ 2025.10.0 (custom) Unaffected: 2023.8.10 (custom) Unaffected: 2025.11.0 (custom) |
guessed |
Date Public
2026-06-26 19:30
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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