Vulnerability CVE-2015-8559
Published: 2017-09-21

Description:
The knife bootstrap command in chef leaks the validator.pem private RSA key to /var/log/messages.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
CHEF -> CHEF 

 References:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/14/14
https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/3871
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