# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-8804"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-03T07:40:15.684Z"
updatedAt: "2026-07-06T15:21:55.981Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-8804"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-8804.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-8804"
title: "Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information for Puppet Resource API"
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: [{"versions":[{"version":"8.11.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThanOrEqual":"8.19.0"},{"version":"8.0.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThanOrEqual":"8.10.0"},{"version":"8.20.0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"custom"}],"vendor":"Perforce","product":"Puppet Core","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2023.8.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThanOrEqual":"2023.8.9"},{"version":"2025.0.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThanOrEqual":"2025.10.0"},{"version":"2023.8.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"custom"},{"version":"2025.11.0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"custom"}],"vendor":"Perforce","product":"Puppet Enterprise","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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