CVE-2015-8559

Publication date 21 September 2017

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

The knife bootstrap command in chef Infra client before version 15.4.45 leaks the validator.pem private RSA key to /var/log/messages.

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
chef	24.10 oracular	Not in release
	24.04 LTS noble	Not in release
	23.10 mantic	Not in release
	23.04 lunar	Not in release
	22.10 kinetic	Not in release
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not in release
	21.10 impish	Not in release
	21.04 hirsute	Not in release
	20.10 groovy	Not in release
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	19.10 eoan	Ignored end of life
	19.04 disco	Ignored end of life
	18.10 cosmic	Ignored end of life
	18.04 LTS bionic	Vulnerable
	17.10 artful	Ignored end of life
	17.04 zesty	Ignored end of life
	16.10 yakkety	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Vulnerable
	15.10 wily	Ignored end of life
	15.04 vivid	Ignored end of life
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of ESM support, was needed
	12.04 LTS precise	Not in release

workaround using validatorless bootstrapping

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
chef	Upstream: https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/8885/commits/6d8fa463cde53431ea0651bb7386e6411e8fca29