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CVE-2011-5098

N/A

Published: August 8, 2012 at 10:00 AM UTC

Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:35 PM UTC

1 product affected across 1 vendorChef

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 2%

Description

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Chef · Opscode

95%

v ≤ 0.9.180.10.0 0.10.2 0.10.4 0.5.1 0.5.2 0.5.4 0.5.6 0.6.0 0.6.2 0.7.10 0.7.12 0.7.14 0.7.2 0.7.4 0.7.6 0.7.8 0.8.10 0.8.12 0.8.14 0.8.16 0.8.2 0.8.4 0.8.6 0.8.8 0.9.0 0.9.10 0.9.12 0.9.14 0.9.16 0.9.2 0.9.4 0.9.6 0.9.8

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

https://github.com/opscode/chef/commit/33f0e9c58bbf047e1b401a834f3abfe72d9a8947

References (2)

x_refsource_CONFIRM

Source: [email protected]

http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-2649

x_refsource_CONFIRMExploitPatch

Source: [email protected]

https://github.com/opscode/chef/commit/33f0e9c58bbf047e1b401a834f3abfe72d9a8947

CVSS

6.5MEDIUM[email protected]

Confidentiality: PARTIAL
Integrity: PARTIAL
Availability: PARTIAL

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED

CWE

CWE-264

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