Vulnerability CVE-2011-5098


Published: 2012-08-08

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.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.5/10
6.4/10
8/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
Single time
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Opscode -> CHEF 

 References:
https://github.com/opscode/chef/commit/33f0e9c58bbf047e1b401a834f3abfe72d9a8947
http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-2649

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