What is CVE-2020-7944?

CVE-2020-7944 is a high-severity vulnerability in Puppet Continuous Delivery, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 7.7/10. Published 2020-03-26.

How severe is CVE-2020-7944?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.7 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Puppet Continuous Delivery

CVE-2020-7944

In Continuous Delivery for Puppet Enterprise (CD4PE) before 3.4.0, changes to resources or classes containing Sensitive parameters can result in the Sensitive parameters ending up in the impact analysis report.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

Published 2020-03-26 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.7 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.009 (56.8th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 57th percentile — 56.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.009 · newest: 0.009 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Puppet Continuous Delivery
Continuous Delivery For Puppet Enterprise (Cd4pe) — versions CD4PE prior to 3.4.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-7944 (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-7944?: CVE-2020-7944 is a high-severity vulnerability in Puppet Continuous Delivery, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 7.7/10. Published 2020-03-26.
How severe is CVE-2020-7944?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.7 out of 10.