Puppet Enterprise vulnerabilities

CVE-2025-5459 [HIGH] CWE-78 CVE-2025-5459: A user with specific node group editing permissions and a specially crafted class parameter could be 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.

CVE-2023-5309 [MEDIUM] CWE-384 CVE-2023-5309: Versions of Puppet Enterprise prior to 2021.7.6 and 2023.5 contain a flaw which results in broken se Versions of Puppet Enterprise prior to 2021.7.6 and 2023.5 contain a flaw which results in broken session management for SAML implementations.

CVE-2023-5255 [MEDIUM] CWE-404 CVE-2023-5255: For certificates that utilize the auto-renew feature in Puppet Server, a flaw exists which prevents For certificates that utilize the auto-renew feature in Puppet Server, a flaw exists which prevents the certificates from being revoked.

CVE-2023-2530 [CRITICAL] CVE-2023-2530: A privilege escalation allowing remote code execution was discovered in the orchestration service. A privilege escalation allowing remote code execution was discovered in the orchestration service.

CVE-2023-1894 [MEDIUM] CWE-1333 CVE-2023-1894: A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) issue was discovered in Puppet Server 7.9.2 certifica A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) issue was discovered in Puppet Server 7.9.2 certificate validation. An issue related to specifically crafted certificate names significantly slowed down server operations.

CVE-2021-27023 [CRITICAL] CVE-2021-27023: A flaw was discovered in Puppet Agent and Puppet Server that may result in a leak of HTTP credential A flaw was discovered in Puppet Agent and Puppet Server that may result in a leak of HTTP credentials when following HTTP redirects to a different host. This is similar to CVE-2018-1000007

CVE-2021-27025 [MEDIUM] CVE-2021-27025: A flaw was discovered in Puppet Agent where the agent may silently ignore Augeas settings or may be A flaw was discovered in Puppet Agent where the agent may silently ignore Augeas settings or may be vulnerable to a Denial of Service condition prior to the first 'pluginsync'.

CVE-2021-27026 [MEDIUM] CWE-532 CVE-2021-27026: A flaw was divered in Puppet Enterprise and other Puppet products where sensitive plan parameters ma A flaw was divered in Puppet Enterprise and other Puppet products where sensitive plan parameters may be logged

CVE-2021-27022 [MEDIUM] CWE-532 CVE-2021-27022: A flaw was discovered in bolt-server and ace where running a task with sensitive parameters results A flaw was discovered in bolt-server and ace where running a task with sensitive parameters results in those sensitive parameters being logged when they should not be. This issue only affects SSH/WinRM nodes (inventory service nodes).

CVE-2021-27020 [HIGH] CWE-1236 CVE-2021-27020: Puppet Enterprise presented a security risk by not sanitizing user input when doing a CSV export. Puppet Enterprise presented a security risk by not sanitizing user input when doing a CSV export.

CVE-2021-27019 [MEDIUM] CWE-532 CVE-2021-27019: PuppetDB logging included potentially sensitive system information. PuppetDB logging included potentially sensitive system information.

CVE-2021-27021 [HIGH] CWE-1027 CVE-2021-27021: A flaw was discovered in Puppet DB, this flaw results in an escalation of privileges which allows th A flaw was discovered in Puppet DB, this flaw results in an escalation of privileges which allows the user to delete tables via an SQL query.

CVE-2020-7943 [HIGH] CWE-276 CVE-2020-7943: Puppet Server and PuppetDB provide useful performance and debugging information via their metrics AP Puppet Server and PuppetDB provide useful performance and debugging information via their metrics API endpoints. For PuppetDB this may contain things like hostnames. Puppet Server reports resource names and titles for defined types (which may contain sensitive information) as well as function names and class names. Previously, these endpoints were open

CVE-2015-5686 [HIGH] CWE-352 CVE-2015-5686: Parts of the Puppet Enterprise Console 3.x were found to be susceptible to clickjacking and CSRF (Cr Parts of the Puppet Enterprise Console 3.x were found to be susceptible to clickjacking and CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery) attacks. This would allow an attacker to redirect user input to an untrusted site or hijack a user session.

CVE-2019-10694 [CRITICAL] CWE-798 CVE-2019-10694: The express install, which is the suggested way to install Puppet Enterprise, gives the user a URL a The express install, which is the suggested way to install Puppet Enterprise, gives the user a URL at the end of the install to set the admin password. If they do not use that URL, there is an overlooked default password for the admin user. This was resolved in Puppet Enterprise 2019.0.3 and 2018.1.9.

CVE-2013-4968 [MEDIUM] CWE-79 CVE-2013-4968: Puppet Enterprise before 3.0.1 allows remote attackers to (1) conduct clickjacking attacks via unspe Puppet Enterprise before 3.0.1 allows remote attackers to (1) conduct clickjacking attacks via unspecified vectors related to the console, and (2) conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via unspecified vectors related to "live management."

CVE-2015-1855 [MEDIUM] CWE-20 CVE-2015-1855: verify_certificate_identity in the OpenSSL extension in Ruby before 2.0.0 patchlevel 645, 2.1.x befo verify_certificate_identity in the OpenSSL extension in Ruby before 2.0.0 patchlevel 645, 2.1.x before 2.1.6, and 2.2.x before 2.2.2 does not properly validate hostnames, which allows remote attackers to spoof servers via vectors related to (1) multiple wildcards, (1) wildcards in IDNA names, (3) case sensitivity, and (4) non-ASCII characters.

CVE-2018-11749 [CRITICAL] CWE-319 CVE-2018-11749: When users are configured to use startTLS with RBAC LDAP, at login time, the user's credentials are When users are configured to use startTLS with RBAC LDAP, at login time, the user's credentials are sent via plaintext to the LDAP server. This affects Puppet Enterprise 2018.1.3, 2017.3.9, and 2016.4.14, and is fixed in Puppet Enterprise 2018.1.4, 2017.3.10, and 2016.4.15. It scored an 8.5 CVSS score.

CVE-2018-6512 [CRITICAL] CWE-94 CVE-2018-6512: The previous version of Puppet Enterprise 2018.1 is vulnerable to unsafe code execution when upgradi The previous version of Puppet Enterprise 2018.1 is vulnerable to unsafe code execution when upgrading pe-razor-server. Affected releases are Puppet Enterprise: 2018.1.x versions prior to 2018.1.1 and razor-server and pe-razor-server prior to 1.9.0.0.

CVE-2018-6513 [HIGH] CWE-426 CVE-2018-6513: Puppet Enterprise 2016.4.x prior to 2016.4.12, Puppet Enterprise 2017.3.x prior to 2017.3.7, Puppet Puppet Enterprise 2016.4.x prior to 2016.4.12, Puppet Enterprise 2017.3.x prior to 2017.3.7, Puppet Enterprise 2018.1.x prior to 2018.1.1, Puppet Agent 1.10.x prior to 1.10.13, Puppet Agent 5.3.x prior to 5.3.7, and Puppet Agent 5.5.x prior to 5.5.2, were vulnerable to an attack where an unprivileged user on Windows agents could write custom facts that c