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CVE-2015-8559

Published: 21/09/2017 Updated: 28/06/2021
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 445
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
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Vulnerability Summary

The knife bootstrap command in chef Infra client before version 15.4.45 leaks the validator.pem private RSA key to /var/log/messages.

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Debian CVElist Bug Report Logs: chef: CVE-2015-8559: knife bootstrap leaks validator privkey into system logs
Debian Bug report logs - #809670 chef: CVE-2015-8559: knife bootstrap leaks validator privkey into system logs Package: src:chef; Maintainer for src:chef is Debian Ruby Extras Maintainers <pkg-ruby-extras-maintainers@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2016 ...

References

CWE-200https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/3871http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/14/14https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-infra-client-15-4-45-released/16081https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/8885https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=809670https://nvd.nist.gov
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