High
Security advisory
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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-27021
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:33 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2021-27021
Complete source record
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