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🛡️ CVE-2026-8668

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-523 NVD
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

A static credential embedded in Chef 360 prior to v1.7.0 permitted unauthenticated access to internal message queues.  Queue messages contained tenant-specific identifiers.  The credential has been rotated and replaced with per-tenant access in subsequent versions, eliminating this access method entirely.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-8668 is classified as CWE-523: Unprotected Transport of Credentials. Credentials travel over a channel that does not protect them from observation.

Affected software

CVE-2026-8668 is recorded against 1 package.

  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 18 June 2026 and last revised on 22 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

docs.chef.io

Other advisories for this package

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Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-523: Unprotected Transport of Credentials) in other software:

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE CWE-523
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-06-18
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-22
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
unknown

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