CVE-2026-85979

Command Injection in Puppet Enterprise

Published: Sep 11, 2026Updated: Sep 18, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVDCWE-20

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NVD MITRE

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. It affects Puppet Enterprise 2023.8.0 through 2023.8.10 and Puppet Enterprise 2025.0.0 through 2025.11.2. This has been resolved in Puppet Enterprise 2023.8.11 and Puppet Enterprise 2025.11.3.

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Weaknesses

CWE-20 CWE-78 CWE-269

Affected Products

Perforce Software

Puppet Enterprise

Exploitability

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References

https://portal.perforce.com/s/cve/a91Qi000003CybNIAS/command-injection-in-puppet-enterprise

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