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CVE-2011-5097

Published: Aug 8, 2012Updated: Apr 29, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVDCWE-264
NVD MITRE
5.5CVSSMEDIUM
EPSS Score
1.4%
Top 30.6%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

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.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LAu:SC:NI:PA:P
Exploitability
AV:NAccess Vector
Network
AC:LAccess Complexity
Low
Au:SAuthentication
Single
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:PIntegrity
Partial
A:PAvailability
Partial
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Weaknesses

CWE-264

Affected Products

chefopscode
Mixed
DevTools & CI / ci-cd
n/an/a
opscodecommercialUSDevTools & CIaka chef

Exploitability

Official Patch Available

References

http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-2436
tickets.opscode.com
https://github.com/opscode/chef/commit/a4ea6edab2fecb922f999cffb0daa04eeeec7a26
github.com

Timeline

Published
Aug 8, 2012
Last Updated
Apr 29, 2026

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