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Chef Improper Access Control vulnerability

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 17, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 9, 2024

Package

bundler chef (RubyGems)

Affected versions

< 0.9.0

Patched versions

0.9.0

Description

chef-server-api/app/controllers/users.rb in the API in Chef before 0.9.0 does not require administrative privileges for the create, destroy, and update methods, which allows remote authenticated users to manage user accounts via requests to the /users URI.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Aug 8, 2012
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 17, 2022
Reviewed Feb 8, 2024
Last updated Feb 9, 2024

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

0.225%
(61st percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2010-5142

GHSA ID

GHSA-f68m-q26r-64f6

Source code

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