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CVE-2011-5098

Published: Aug 8, 2012Updated: Apr 29, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVDCWE-264
NVD MITRE
6.5CVSSMEDIUM
EPSS Score
1.7%
Top 26.1%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

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.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LAu:SC:PI:PA:P
Exploitability
AV:NAccess Vector
Network
AC:LAccess Complexity
Low
Au:SAuthentication
Single
Impact
C:PConfidentiality
Partial
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-2649
tickets.opscode.com
https://github.com/opscode/chef/commit/33f0e9c58bbf047e1b401a834f3abfe72d9a8947
github.com

Timeline

Published
Aug 8, 2012
Last Updated
Apr 29, 2026

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