A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Opscode chef. This vulnerability affects an unknown function. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-264. As an impact it is known to affect integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

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.

The weakness was released 08/08/2012 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2011-5097 since 08/08/2012. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. The successful exploitation requires a single authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

Upgrading to version 0.10.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at 61517 and 61514.

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Vendor

• Opscode

Name

• chef

Version

• 0.7.2
• 0.7.4
• 0.7.6
• 0.7.8
• 0.7.10
• 0.7.12
• 0.7.14
• 0.8.2
• 0.8.4
• 0.8.6
• 0.8.8
• 0.8.10
• 0.9.0
• 0.9.2
• 0.9.4
• 0.9.6
• 0.9.8
• 0.9.10
• 0.9.12
• 0.9.14
• 0.9.16
• 0.10.0

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• open-source

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• end of life (old version)

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