Northern.tech CFEngine Enterprise 3.12.1 has Insecure Permissions.

published 2019-06-06 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-19284

cvss: 8.8; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 2.0%; EPSS 2.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 80%
public exploits: 0; none known

Patch / fix

distros 1

cfengine Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +12 more 3.12.2-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2019-9929

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Exploit prediction

1.98% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 80% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

cfengine.com https://cfengine.com/company/blog-detail/cve-2019-9929-internal-authentication-secrets-leaked-in-logs/ referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.0	8.8	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	9.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness

CWE-532 Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

References

cfengine.com /company/blog-detail/cve-2019-9929-internal-authentication-secrets-leaked-in-logs/
exploit, mitigation, vendor-advisory
cfengine.com /product/latest-release/
release-notes, vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2019-9929
NVD CVE-2019-9929

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Summary