🛡️ CVE-2015-1426 — facter

🟢 CVSS 2.0 — Low ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-200 OSV
2.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Puppet Labs Facter allows local users to obtain sensitive Amazon EC2 IAM instance metadata

Puppet Labs Facter 1.6.0 through 2.4.0 allows local users to obtains sensitive Amazon EC2 IAM instance metadata by reading a fact for an Amazon EC2 node.

Weakness class

CVE-2015-1426 is classified as CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information. Information that should stay internal is disclosed to someone who is not authorised to see it.

Affected software

CVE-2015-1426 is recorded against 1 package.

  • facter (from 1.6.0 up to 2.4.1)

Timeline and source

Published on 14 May 2022 and last revised on 4 December 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)
web.archive.org (Web)
www.puppet.com (Web)

Details

Severity LOW
CVSS Score 2.0
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE CWE-200
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-14
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-12-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
facter 1.6.0 2.4.1

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