CVE-2011-5098

Severity

65%

Complexity

80%

Confidentiality

106%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

opscode Chef

First reported 12 years ago

2012-08-08 10:26:00

Last updated 12 years ago

2012-08-10 04:00:00

Affected Software

opscode Chef 0.5.1

0.5.1

opscode Chef 0.5.2

0.5.2

opscode Chef 0.5.4

0.5.4

opscode Chef 0.5.6

0.5.6

opscode Chef 0.6.0

0.6.0

opscode Chef 0.6.2

0.6.2

opscode Chef 0.7.2

0.7.2

opscode Chef 0.7.4

0.7.4

opscode Chef 0.7.6

0.7.6

opscode Chef 0.7.8

0.7.8

opscode Chef 0.7.10

0.7.10

opscode Chef 0.7.12

0.7.12

opscode Chef 0.7.14

0.7.14

opscode Chef 0.8.2

0.8.2

opscode Chef 0.8.4

0.8.4

opscode Chef 0.8.6

0.8.6

opscode Chef 0.8.8

0.8.8

opscode Chef 0.8.10

0.8.10

opscode Chef 0.8.12

0.8.12

opscode Chef 0.8.14

0.8.14

opscode Chef 0.8.16

0.8.16

opscode Chef 0.9.0

0.9.0

opscode Chef 0.9.2

0.9.2

opscode Chef 0.9.4

0.9.4

opscode Chef 0.9.6

0.9.6

opscode Chef 0.9.8

0.9.8

opscode Chef 0.9.10

0.9.10

opscode Chef 0.9.12

0.9.12

opscode Chef 0.9.14

0.9.14

opscode Chef 0.9.16

0.9.16

opscode Chef 0.10.0

0.10.0

opscode Chef 0.10.2

0.10.2

opscode Chef 0.10.4

0.10.4

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