CVE-2015-8559

HIGH 7.5CVE-2015-8559 · Published 21/09/2017 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2015-8559 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting chef (chef).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.9%, higher than 80.0% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 15.4.45 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
chef chef	`< 15.4.45`	`15.4.45`

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

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