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Home›CVE Pulse›CVE-2011-5098

CVE-2011-5098

NONECVSS 0.0

0.0

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

August 8, 2012

🔄 Last Modified

April 29, 2026

🔗 References (4)

cve@mitrehttp://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-2649
cve@mitrehttps://github.com/opscode/chef/commit/33f0e9c58bbf047e1b401a834f3abfe72d9a8947
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-2649
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/opscode/chef/commit/33f0e9c58bbf047e1b401a834f3abfe72d9a8947

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