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CVE-2015-1426

11
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-1426 describes a local information disclosure vulnerability in Puppet Labs Facter versions 1.6.0 through 2.4.0. An attacker with local access to an Amazon EC2 node could read specific Facter facts to obtain sensitive Amazon EC2 IAM instance metadata. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1, indicating low attack complexity and impact, with only confidentiality being affected. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:facter:1.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.6.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:facter:1.6.1:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.6.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:facter:1.6.1:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.6.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:facter:1.6.1:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.6.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:facter:1.6.1:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.35%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
27.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0035 is in the 29th percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: facterFixed in: 2.4.1

Vendor Advisories (1)

rubygemsGHSA-j436-h7hm-rx46low

Puppet Labs Facter allows local users to obtain sensitive Amazon EC2 IAM instance metadata

May 14, 2022

References

puppetlabs.com / security/cve/cve-2015-1426
Vendor Advisory