CVE-2026-8804

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
PerforcePuppet Core8.11.0 <= 8.19.0affected
PerforcePuppet Core8.0.0 <= 8.10.0affected
PerforcePuppet Core8.20.0unaffected
PerforcePuppet Enterprise2023.8.0 <= 2023.8.9affected
PerforcePuppet Enterprise2025.0.0 <= 2025.10.0affected
PerforcePuppet Enterprise2023.8.10unaffected
PerforcePuppet Enterprise2025.11.0unaffected

Weaknesses

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

References