PT-2017-7436 · Chef · Chef Infra Client

Jschauma · Published 2017-09-21 · Updated 2021-06-28 · CVE-2015-8559

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Chef Infra client versions prior to 15.4.45

Description The issue concerns the knife bootstrap command in Chef Infra client, which leaks the validator.pem private RSA key to /var/log/messages.

Recommendations For versions prior to 15.4.45, update to version 15.4.45 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-8559

Affected Products

Chef Infra Client

References · 10

• https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/3871 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8559 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8559 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8559 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8559 · Security Note
• https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/8885 · Note
• https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-infra-client-15-4-45-released/16081 · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/14479 · Telegram Post
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/14/10 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/14/14 · Note