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CVE-2010-5142 Chef Improper Access Control vulnerability

MediumCVSS 6.5 EPSS 1.6% PoC
Published
Updated
Exploit status
Proof-of-concept only

Description

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.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
rubygems chef(RubyGems) < 0.9.0 0.9.0
rubygems chef(RubyGems) = 0.7.10 No fix listed
rubygems chef(RubyGems) = 0.7.12 No fix listed
rubygems chef(RubyGems) = 0.7.14 No fix listed
rubygems chef(RubyGems) = 0.7.16 No fix listed
rubygems chef(RubyGems) = 0.8.10 No fix listed
rubygems chef(RubyGems) = 0.8.14 No fix listed
rubygems chef(RubyGems) = 0.8.16 No fix listed
rubygems chef(RubyGems) = 0.8.2 No fix listed
rubygems chef(RubyGems) = 0.8.4 No fix listed
rubygems chef(RubyGems) = 0.8.6 No fix listed
rubygems chef(RubyGems) = 0.8.8 No fix listed
rubygems chef(RubyGems) = 0.9.0.a10 No fix listed
rubygems chef(RubyGems) = 0.9.0.a3 No fix listed
rubygems chef(RubyGems) = 0.9.0.a4 No fix listed
rubygems chef(RubyGems) = 0.9.0.a6 No fix listed
rubygems chef(RubyGems) = 0.9.0.a8 No fix listed
rubygems chef(RubyGems) = 0.9.0.a90 No fix listed
rubygems chef(RubyGems) = 0.9.0.a91 No fix listed
rubygems chef(RubyGems) = 0.9.0.a92 No fix listed
rubygems chef(RubyGems) = 0.9.0.b01 No fix listed
rubygems chef(RubyGems) = 0.9.0.b02 No fix listed
rubygems chef(RubyGems) = 0.9.0.rc01 No fix listed
rubygems chef(RubyGems) = 0.9.0.rc02 No fix listed
opscode chef <= 0.8.10 No fix listed
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ProductAffected versionsFixed in
opscode chef = 0.7.2 No fix listed
opscode chef = 0.7.4 No fix listed
opscode chef = 0.7.6 No fix listed
opscode chef = 0.7.8 No fix listed
opscode chef = 0.7.10 No fix listed
opscode chef = 0.7.12 No fix listed
opscode chef = 0.7.14 No fix listed
opscode chef = 0.8.2 No fix listed
opscode chef = 0.8.4 No fix listed
opscode chef = 0.8.6 No fix listed
opscode chef = 0.8.8 No fix listed

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