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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-FACTER-5672120
  • published 8 Jun 2023
  • disclosed 14 May 2022
  • credit Unknown

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.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
3.3 low
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Local
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    None
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NVD

4 medium