Security Advisory

CVE-2011-5098

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2012-08-08 10:00:00

Last updated 2024-09-17 03:42:41

Assigner mitre

State PUBLISHED

Description

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.

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