PT-2012-2075 · Chef · Chef Server

Published 2012-08-08 · Updated 2012-08-13 · CVE-2011-5097

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Chef Server versions prior to 0.9.18 Chef Server versions 0.10.x prior to 0.10.2

Description The issue allows remote authenticated users to upload or delete cookbooks without requiring administrative privileges. This can be achieved via the knife cookbook upload command or the knife cookbook delete command.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.9.18, update to version 0.9.18 or later. For versions 0.10.x prior to 0.10.2, update to version 0.10.2 or later.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2011-5097

Affected Products

Chef Server

References · 3

• https://github.com/opscode/chef/commit/a4ea6edab2fecb922f999cffb0daa04eeeec7a26 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-5097 · Security Note
• http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-2436 · Note