facter: potential sensitive information leakage in Facter's Amazon EC2 metadata facts handling
Published Feb 23, 2015
2.1
LOWCVSS 2.0
EPSS 0.35%
Description
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.
Affected products
No data.
- 1.6.0
- 1.6.1
- 1.6.1
- 1.6.1
- 1.6.1
- 1.6.2
- 1.6.3
- 1.6.4
- 1.6.5
- 1.6.6
- 1.6.6
- 1.6.7
- 1.6.8
- 1.6.9
- 1.6.10
- 1.6.11
- 1.6.12
- 1.6.12
- 1.6.13
- 1.6.14
- 1.6.15
- 1.6.16
- 1.6.17
- 1.6.18
- 1.7.0
- 1.7.0
- 1.7.1
- 1.7.2
- 1.7.3
- 1.7.4
- 1.7.5
- 1.7.5
- 2.0.0
- 2.0.0
- 2.0.0
- 2.0.0
- 2.0.1
- 2.0.1
- 2.0.1
- 2.0.1
- 2.0.2
- 2.1.0
- 2.2.0
- 2.3.0
- 2.4.0
- 1.6.1
- 1.6.2
- 1.6.3
- 1.6.4
- 1.6.5
- 1.6.6
- 1.6.7
- 1.6.8
- 1.6.9
- 1.6.10
- 1.6.11
- 1.6.12
- 1.6.13
- 1.6.14
- 1.6.15
- 1.6.17
- 1.6.18
- 1.7.0
- 1.7.1
- 1.7.2
- 1.7.3
- 1.7.4
- 1.7.5
- 1.7.6
- 2.0.1
No data.
OpenStack Foreman
facter
Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5 (Icehouse)
facter
Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6 (Juno)
facter
Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise MRG 1
facter
Not affected
Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2
facter
Not affected
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 4
facter
Not affected
Red Hat Satellite 6
facter
Not affected
Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager
facter
Not affected
| Product | Package | State | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenStack Foreman | facter | Not affected | n/a |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5 (Icehouse) | facter | Not affected | n/a |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6 (Juno) | facter | Not affected | n/a |
| Red Hat Enterprise MRG 1 | facter | Not affected | n/a |
| Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2 | facter | Not affected | n/a |
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 4 | facter | Not affected | n/a |
| Red Hat Satellite 6 | facter | Not affected | n/a |
| Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager | facter | Not affected | n/a |
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
Red Hat statement
This issue did not affect the versions of facter as shipped with various Red Hat products as they do not use puppet and facter to control Amazon EC2 instances directly.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (9 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 0.35% (0.00353) | 26.64th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 0.35% (0.00353) | 26.98th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 0.06% (0.00059) | 15.66th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 0.04% (0.00042) | 5.07th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 0.04% (0.00042) | 5.63th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 0.89% (0.00885) | 27.89th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Sep 10, 2022 | 0.89% (0.00885) | 26.24th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 0.89% (0.00885) | 24.24th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 0.89% (0.00885) | 10.50th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
References (9)
- http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2015-1426 x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-1426 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1191538 Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j436-h7hm-rx46 Advisory
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/facter/CVE-2015-1426.yml
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-1426
- https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195742/http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2015-1426
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-1426
- https://www.puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2015-1426-potential-sensitive-information-leakage-facters-amazon-ec2-metadata
Change history (0)
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