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UBUNTU-CVE-2026-8804 (CVE-2026-8804)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2026-07-03 08:16 – Updated: 2026-07-09 15:15 – Source website

Details

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

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

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-8804	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-8804	REPORT
	https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet-resource_api…	REPORT

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CVE-2026-8804 (GCVE-0-2026-8804)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-03 07:40 – Updated: 2026-07-06 15:21

Title

Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information for Puppet Resource API

Summary

Severity

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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-07-06 15:21 UTC

CWE

CWE-313 - Cleartext storage in a file or on disk
CWE-312 - Cleartext storage of sensitive information

Assigner

Perforce mitre root Scorecard

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://portal.perforce.com/s/cve/a91Qi000003511l…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Perforce	Puppet Core	Affected: 8.11.0 , ≤ 8.19.0 (custom) Affected: 8.0.0 , ≤ 8.10.0 (custom) Unaffected: 8.20.0 (custom)
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)

Date Public

2026-06-26 19:30

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