CVE-2010-5142: Opscode Chef

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Opscode Chef: up to and including 0.8.10; version 0.7.2 only; version 0.7.4 only; version 0.7.6 only; version 0.7.8 only; version 0.7.10 only; …

Published 2012-08-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.