UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8559

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8559

    Published: 21 Sept 2017Last Modified: 24 Oct 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2015-8559

    Summary:

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

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8559, https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/3871, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/14/10, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8559

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: chef

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    10.12.0-3

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High