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CVE-2021-27021

28
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-27021 describes a privilege escalation flaw in Puppet DB, affecting Puppet, Puppet Enterprise, and PuppetDB products. This vulnerability allows an authenticated attacker to execute SQL queries that can delete database tables. With a CVSS score of 8.8 (High), it presents a significant risk due to its low attack complexity and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 6.23.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 7.7.0, < 7.8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 2019.8.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_enterprise:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 2021.0.0, < 2021.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_enterprise:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 6.17.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppetdb:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.26%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
66.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0126 is in the 64th percentile among its peer group of 17,844 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2021-27021Important

puppet: SQL injection

Jun 24, 2021

References

puppet.com / security/cve/cve-2021-27021
Vendor Advisory