Progress Chef Inspec up to 5.23 Named Pipe privileges management

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Progress Chef Inspec up to 5.23. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component Named Pipe Handler. Executing a manipulation can lead to privileges management. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-6723. The attack can only be executed locally. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Progress Chef Inspec up to 5.23. This vulnerability affects an unknown function of the component Named Pipe Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Chef InSpec versions up to 5.23 and before 7.0.107 creates named pipes with overly permissive default Windows access controls. A local attacker may interfere with the pipe connection process and exploit the insufficient access restrictions to assume the InSpec execution context, potentially resulting in elevated privileges or operational disruption. This issue affects Chef Inspec: through 5.23 and before 7.0.107

The advisory is shared for download at docs.chef.io. This vulnerability was named CVE-2025-6723 since 06/26/2025. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The attack needs to be approached locally. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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Vendor

• Progress

Name

• Chef Inspec

Version

• 5.0
• 5.1
• 5.2
• 5.3
• 5.4
• 5.5
• 5.6
• 5.7
• 5.8
• 5.9
• 5.10
• 5.11
• 5.12
• 5.13
• 5.14
• 5.15
• 5.16
• 5.17
• 5.18
• 5.19
• 5.20
• 5.21
• 5.22
• 5.23

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• commercial

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