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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2015-8559

High
7.5/10

Summary

The knife bootstrap command in chef Infra client before version 15.4.22 leaks the validator.pem private RSA key to /var/log/messages.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • NONE

CWE-200 - Information Exposure

An information exposure vulnerability is categorized as an information flow (IF) weakness, which can potentially allow unauthorized access to otherwise classified information in the application, such as confidential personal information (demographics, financials, health records, etc.), business secrets, and the application's internal environment.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published