CVE-2011-5098

chef-server-api/app/controllers/clients.rb in Chef Server in Chef before 0.9.20, and 0.10.x before 0.10.6, does not require administrative privileges for…

published August 8, 2012

CVSS
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EPSS
2%
Percentile
76.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

chef-server-api/app/controllers/clients.rb in Chef Server in Chef before 0.9.20, and 0.10.x before 0.10.6, does not require administrative privileges for creating admin clients, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging read permission for the validation key and executing a knife client create command with the --admin option.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01681 · 76.6th percentile
Published
2012-08-08T10:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 08 AUG 10:00Z
    chef-server-api/app/controllers/clients.rb in Chef Server in Chef before 0.9.20, and 0.10.x before 0.10.6, does not require administrative privileges for…
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