GHSA-j436-h7hm-rx46

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

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Low CVE-2015-1426

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
RubyGems	facter	>= 1.6.0, < 2.4.1	2.4.1

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

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.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-1426 advisory
https://github.com/puppetlabs/facter package
https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/facter/CVE-2015-1426.yml web
https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195742/http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2015-1426 web
https://www.puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2015-1426-potential-sensitive-information-leakage-facters-amazon-ec2-metadata web