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SCA: security update for chef (GHSA-f68m-q26r-64f6)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 433645

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - chef-server-api/app/controllers/users.rb in the API in Chef before 0.9.0 does not require administrative
 privileges for the create, destroy, and update methods, which allows remote authenticated users to manage
 user accounts via requests to the /users URI. (CVE-2010-5142)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-f68m-q26r-64f6

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 433645

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.8

Percentile: 22.22

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2010-5142

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/7/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-5142

BID: 54953

cwe: CWE-284