CVE-2011-5098

medium

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.

References

https://github.com/opscode/chef/commit/33f0e9c58bbf047e1b401a834f3abfe72d9a8947

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2011-4998

http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-2649

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2012-08-08

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.01681