CVE-2021-27021: Puppet

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A flaw was discovered in Puppet DB, this flaw results in an escalation of privileges which allows the user to delete tables via an SQL query.

Affected products

• Puppet Puppet: before 6.23.0 (fixed in 6.23.0); from 7.7.0, before 7.8.0 (fixed in 7.8.0)
• Puppet Puppet Enterprise: before 2019.8.7 (fixed in 2019.8.7); from 2021.0.0, before 2021.2.0 (fixed in 2021.2.0)
• Puppet Puppetdb: before 6.17.0 (fixed in 6.17.0); from 7.0.0, before 7.4.1 (fixed in 7.4.1)

Published 2021-07-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.