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Vulnerability details: VCID-j37w-1fmd-3fe3
Vulnerability ID VCID-j37w-1fmd-3fe3
Aliases CVE-2015-1426
GHSA-j436-h7hm-rx46
Summary Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor 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.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 2.7
Risk 1.4
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (3)
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
epss 0.00059 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-1426
epss 0.00059 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-1426
epss 0.00059 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-1426
generic_textual LOW https://github.com/puppetlabs/facter
generic_textual LOW https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/facter/CVE-2015-1426.yml
generic_textual LOW https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-1426
generic_textual LOW https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195742/http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2015-1426
cvssv3 1.3 https://www.puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2015-1426-potential-sensitive-information-leakage-facters-amazon-ec2-metadata
generic_textual LOW https://www.puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2015-1426-potential-sensitive-information-leakage-facters-amazon-ec2-metadata
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2015-1426.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-1426
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-1426
https://github.com/puppetlabs/facter
1191538 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1191538
778265 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=778265
CVE-2015-1426 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-1426
CVE-2015-1426 https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195742/http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2015-1426
CVE-2015-1426-POTENTIAL-SENSITIVE-INFORMATION-LEAKAGE-FACTERS-AMAZON-EC2-METADATA https://www.puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2015-1426-potential-sensitive-information-leakage-facters-amazon-ec2-metadata
CVE-2015-1426.YML https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/facter/CVE-2015-1426.yml
GHSA-j436-h7hm-rx46 https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j436-h7hm-rx46
No exploits are available.
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.18715
EPSS Score 0.00059
Published At June 4, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-06-02T04:43:16.596150+00:00 GitLab Importer Import https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/gem/facter/CVE-2015-1426.yml 38.6.0