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.
Published 2012-08-08 10:26:18
Updated 2012-08-10 04:00:00
Source MITRE
View at NVD,   CVE.org

Products affected by CVE-2011-5098

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2011-5098

0.21%
Probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days EPSS Score History
~ 59 %
Percentile, the proportion of vulnerabilities that are scored at or less

CVSS scores for CVE-2011-5098

Base Score Base Severity CVSS Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Score Source First Seen
6.5
MEDIUM AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
8.0
6.4
NIST

CWE ids for CVE-2011-5098

  • Assigned by: nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

References for CVE-2011-5098

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