CVE-2011-5098

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Summary

CVECVE-2011-5098
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2012-08-08 10:26:18 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
Descriptionchef-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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 6.5 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: CWE-264 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
Single
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Opscode Chef 0.10.0 All All All
Application Opscode Chef 0.10.2 All All All
Application Opscode Chef 0.10.4 All All All
Application Opscode Chef 0.5.1 All All All
Application Opscode Chef 0.5.2 All All All
Application Opscode Chef 0.5.4 All All All
Application Opscode Chef 0.5.6 All All All
Application Opscode Chef 0.6.0 All All All
Application Opscode Chef 0.6.2 All All All
Application Opscode Chef 0.7.10 All All All
Application Opscode Chef 0.7.12 All All All
Application Opscode Chef 0.7.14 All All All
Application Opscode Chef 0.7.2 All All All
Application Opscode Chef 0.7.4 All All All
Application Opscode Chef 0.7.6 All All All
Application Opscode Chef 0.7.8 All All All
Application Opscode Chef 0.8.10 All All All
Application Opscode Chef 0.8.12 All All All
Application Opscode Chef 0.8.14 All All All
Application Opscode Chef 0.8.16 All All All
Application Opscode Chef 0.8.2 All All All
Application Opscode Chef 0.8.4 All All All
Application Opscode Chef 0.8.6 All All All
Application Opscode Chef 0.8.8 All All All
Application Opscode Chef 0.9.0 All All All
Application Opscode Chef 0.9.10 All All All
Application Opscode Chef 0.9.12 All All All
Application Opscode Chef 0.9.14 All All All
Application Opscode Chef 0.9.16 All All All
Application Opscode Chef 0.9.2 All All All
Application Opscode Chef 0.9.4 All All All
Application Opscode Chef 0.9.6 All All All
Application Opscode Chef 0.9.8 All All All
Application Opscode Chef All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[#CHEF-2649] validation client should not be able to create admin clients - Opscode Open Source Ticket Tracking af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 tickets.opscode.com
CHEF-2649: Only allow admin clients to create admins (not validators) · chef/chef@33f0e9c · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com Exploit, Patch
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