Information Exposure Affecting facter package, versions >=1.6.0, <2.4.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUBY-FACTER-5672120
  • published8 Jun 2023
  • disclosed14 May 2022
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 May 2022

CVE-2015-1426  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade facter to version 2.4.1 or higher.

Overview

facter is a library for collecting and displaying system facts

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure that allows local users to obtain sensitive Amazon EC2 IAM instance metadata.

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