CVE-2026-8804 — Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information for Puppet Resource API

Description (CNA)

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 (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
Perforce / Puppet Core	affected 8.11.0 through 8.19.0; affected 8.0.0 through 8.10.0; unaffected 8.20.0
Perforce / Puppet Enterprise	affected 2023.8.0 through 2023.8.9; affected 2025.0.0 through 2025.10.0; unaffected 2023.8.10; unaffected 2025.11.0

CWE

CWE-313, CWE-312

References

https://portal.perforce.com/s/cve/a91Qi000003511lIAA/cve20268804-cleartext-storage-of-sensitive-information-for-puppet-resource-api

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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