CVE-2011-5097 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2011-5097

chef-server-api/app/controllers/cookbooks.rb in Chef Server in Chef before 0.9.18, and 0.10.x...

Vulnerability Description

chef-server-api/app/controllers/cookbooks.rb in Chef Server in Chef before 0.9.18, and 0.10.x before 0.10.2, does not require administrative privileges for the update and destroy methods, which allows remote authenticated users to (1) upload cookbooks via a knife cookbook upload command or (2) delete cookbooks via a knife cookbook delete command.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

chef
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 0.7.2, 0.7.4, 0.7.6, 0.7.8, 0.7.10, 0.7.12, 0.7.14, 0.8.2, 0.8.4, 0.8.6, 0.8.8, 0.8.10, 0.9.0, 0.9.2, 0.9.4, 0.9.6, 0.9.8, 0.9.10, 0.9.12, 0.9.14, 0.10.0

Timeline

Official Publish: August 8th, 2012
Last Modified: September 16th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.