Sensitive Parameter Exposure in Puppet Bolt prior to 3.24

published 2022-07-19 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-34659

cvss: 4.1; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.5%; EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 45%
public exploits: 0; none known

Puppet Bolt prior to version 3.24.0 will print sensitive parameters when planning a run resulting in them potentially being logged when run programmatically, such as via Puppet Enterprise.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

perforce puppet_bolt 3.24.0

Exploit prediction

0.54% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 45% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	4.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD	3.1	3.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Affected products

Puppet Bolt

Classification

Weakness

CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CWE-532 Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

References

puppet.com /security/cve/CVE-2022-2394
release-notes, vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2022-2394
NVD CVE-2022-2394

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Summary