GitHub Advisoryadvisory · RubyGems

GHSA-f68m-q26r-64f6 Chef Improper Access Control vulnerability

MEDIUM Published 2022-05-17 Modified 2024-02-09 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2010-5142
Ecosystem
RubyGems
Packages
chef
Severity
Moderate
Weaknesses
CWE-284
Reviewed
2024-02-08

Affected packages

• RubyGems chef: < 0.9.0 → fixed in 0.9.0

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.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2010-5142 chef-server-api/app/controllers/users.rb in the API in Chef before 0.9.0 does not require administrative privileges for the create,… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-284 Improper Access Control weakness

References