{"id":"CVE-2026-85979","aliases":["EUVD-2026-76124","GHSA-j9jp-p256-9294","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-85979"],"status":"published","title":"Command Injection in Puppet Enterprise","description":"Affected versions of Puppet Enterprise contain a command injection vulnerability. An authenticated user with Puppet administrative privileges can inject arbitrary shell commands by providing a specially crafted value for this parameter, which is passed to a shell execution context without sufficient sanitization. Because the resulting commands are executed with root privileges, successful exploitation can lead to full compromise of the affected system. \n\nIt affects Puppet Enterprise 2023.8.0 through 2023.8.10 and Puppet Enterprise 2025.0.0 through 2025.11.2.\n\n\n\nThis has been resolved in Puppet Enterprise 2023.8.11 and Puppet Enterprise 2025.11.3.","severity":{"version":"4.0","score":8.6,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","level":"high","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-12","score":0.01286,"percentile":0.70571,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-20","CWE-269","CWE-78"],"published":"2026-09-11T14:40:53Z","modified":"2026-10-17T13:01:13Z","affected":[{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:24.04:LTS","package":"puppetserver","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["7.9.5-2","8.4.0-1"]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:26.10","package":"puppetserver","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["8.7.0-6ubuntu1","8.7.0-6ubuntu2"]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:26.04:LTS","package":"puppetserver","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["8.7.0-3","8.7.0-6","8.7.0-6ubuntu1"]}],"products":[{"vendor":"perforce","product":"puppet enterprise"},{"vendor":"perforce software","product":"puppet enterprise"}],"references":[{"url":"https://portal.perforce.com/s/cve/a91Qi000003CybNIAS/command-injection-in-puppet-enterprise","tags":["vendor-advisory","report"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-85979"},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j9jp-p256-9294"},{"url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-85979","tags":["report"]},{"url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-85979","tags":["report"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2026-85979","title":"Command Injection in Puppet Enterprise","description":"Affected versions of Puppet Enterprise contain a command injection vulnerability. An authenticated user with Puppet administrative privileges can inject arbitrary shell commands by providing a specially crafted value for this parameter, which is passed to a shell execution context without sufficient sanitization. Because the resulting commands are executed with root privileges, successful exploitation can lead to full compromise of the affected system. \n\nIt affects Puppet Enterprise 2023.8.0 through 2023.8.10 and Puppet Enterprise 2025.0.0 through 2025.11.2.\n\n\n\nThis has been resolved in Puppet Enterprise 2023.8.11 and Puppet Enterprise 2025.11.3.","status":"published","published":"2026-09-11T14:40:53.491Z","modified":"2026-09-16T09:49:14.319Z","cvss":[{"version":"4.0","score":8.6,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","level":"high","assessor":"cna"}],"cwes":["CWE-78","CWE-20","CWE-269"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:19:52.410665Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2026-76124","description":"Affected versions of Puppet Enterprise contain a command injection vulnerability. An authenticated user with Puppet administrative privileges can inject arbitrary shell commands by providing a specially crafted value for this parameter, which is passed to a shell execution context without sufficient sanitization. Because the resulting commands are executed with root privileges, successful exploitation can lead to full compromise of the affected system. \n\nIt affects Puppet Enterprise 2023.8.0 through 2023.8.10 and Puppet Enterprise 2025.0.0 through 2025.11.2.\n\n\n\nThis has been resolved in Puppet Enterprise 2023.8.11 and Puppet Enterprise 2025.11.3.","status":"published","published":"2026-09-11T14:40:53Z","modified":"2026-09-16T09:49:14Z","cvss":[{"version":"4.0","score":8.6,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","level":"high"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T17:28:16.201278Z"}],"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-j9jp-p256-9294","title":"Affected versions of Puppet Enterprise contain a command injection vulnerability in the handling...","description":"Affected versions of Puppet Enterprise contain a command injection vulnerability in the handling of the java_keystore_passwd parameter. An authenticated user with Puppet administrative privileges can inject arbitrary shell commands by providing a specially crafted value for this parameter, which is passed to a shell execution context without sufficient sanitization. Because the resulting commands are executed with root privileges, successful exploitation can lead to full compromise of the affected system.","status":"published","published":"2026-09-11T15:32:42Z","modified":"2026-09-11T15:32:48Z","cvss":[{"version":"4.0","score":8.6,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X","level":"high"}],"cwes":["CWE-20"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:11:45.091927Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2026-85979","description":"Affected versions of Puppet Enterprise contain a command injection vulnerability. An authenticated user with Puppet administrative privileges can inject arbitrary shell commands by providing a specially crafted value for this parameter, which is passed to a shell execution context without sufficient sanitization. Because the resulting commands are executed with root privileges, successful exploitation can lead to full compromise of the affected system. \n\nIt affects Puppet Enterprise 2023.8.0 through 2023.8.10 and Puppet Enterprise 2025.0.0 through 2025.11.2.\n\n\n\nThis has been resolved in Puppet Enterprise 2023.8.11 and Puppet Enterprise 2025.11.3.","status":"published","published":"2026-09-11T15:17:06.807Z","modified":"2026-09-18T19:30:42.73Z","cvss":[{"version":"4.0","score":8.6,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X","level":"high","assessor":"secondary"}],"cwes":["CWE-20","CWE-78","CWE-269"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:12:46.271848Z"}],"osv":[{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2026-85979","description":"Affected versions of Puppet Enterprise contain a command injection vulnerability. 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