CVE•Published 2026-06-18•Modified 2026-06-22•0 articles on news•5 live references•NVD data

CVE-2026-8668

Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)

CVSS v3.1

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EPSS percentile

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Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-523Unprotected Transport of Credentials

Description

A static credential embedded in Chef 360 prior to v1.7.0 permitted unauthenticated access to internal message queues. Queue messages contained tenant-specific identifiers. The credential has been rotated and replaced with per-tenant access in subsequent versions, eliminating this access method entirely.

Timeline

Published 2026-06-18

Modified 2026-06-22

External references

NVD MITRE Exploit-DB Sploitus VulnCheck

Search for exposed instances

Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).

Shodan · vuln tag0 hosts

vuln:CVE-2026-8668

Hosts Shodan has explicitly fingerprinted as vulnerable.

More intel sources (5)

Shodan report

vuln:CVE-2026-8668

Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.

Censys

vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-8668

Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.

grep.app

CVE-2026-8668