6.7

CVE-2026-8804: perforce puppet core

CVSS: 6.7v4.0MediumAwaiting analysis
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2026-8804DEBIAN-CVE-2026-8804
Published 03-07-2026Last modified 06-07-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-8804 is a medium (CVSS 6.7) vulnerability in perforce puppet core. EPSS estimates a 0.11% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 1% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
27/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
6.7/10
010
Medium · v4.0 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.11%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 03-07-2026
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 06-07-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.11%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

1%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.11% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.11%

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

Perforce2 products
Debian1 product
  • ruby-puppet-resource-apiAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 2.0.1-1
Ubuntu1 product
  • ruby-puppet-resource-apiAll versions (No fix recorded)

3 vendors · 4 products

References

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