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CVE-2025-5459: perforce puppet enterprise OS Command Injection

CVSS: 8.8v3.1HighModified
Published 26-06-2025Last modified 04-09-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-5459 is a high (CVSS 8.8) OS Command Injection vulnerability in perforce puppet enterprise. EPSS estimates a 1.06% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 64.1% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
35/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
8.8/10
010
High · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
1.06%
0%100%
Low · +0.57 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 26-06-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 04-09-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A user with specific node group editing permissions and a specially crafted class parameter could be used to execute commands as root on the primary host. It affects Puppet Enterprise versions 2018.1.8 through 2023.8.3 and 2025.3 and has been resolved in versions 2023.8.4 and 2025.4.0.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 2 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

1.06%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

64%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.57 pp

From 0.49% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
1.06%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Perforce1 product
Puppet1 product

2 vendors · 2 products

References

2 links