CVE-2011-5098 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2011-5098

chef-server-api/app/controllers/clients.rb in Chef Server in Chef before 0.9.20, and 0.10.x...

Vulnerability 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.

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, 0.5.1, 0.5.2, 0.5.4, 0.5.6, 0.6.0, 0.6.2, 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, 0.8.12, 0.8.14, 0.8.16, 0.9.0, 0.9.2, 0.9.4, 0.9.6, 0.9.8, 0.9.10, 0.9.12, 0.9.14, 0.9.16, 0.10.0, 0.10.2, 0.10.4

Timeline

Official Publish: August 8th, 2012
Last Modified: September 17th, 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.