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, destroy, and update methods, which allows remote authenticated users to manage user accounts via requests to the /users URI.

Score

CVSS 2.0 6.5 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2012-08-08

Last modified

2024-09-16

Weaknesses

CWE-264

Affected products

• Chef (Opscode)

References

• http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-1289
• https://github.com/opscode/chef/commit/c3bb41f727fbe00e5de719d687757b24c8dcdfc8