CVE-2011-5097: Opscode Chef

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

chef-server-api/app/controllers/cookbooks.rb in Chef Server in Chef before 0.9.18, and 0.10.x before 0.10.2, does not require administrative privileges for the update and destroy methods, which allows remote authenticated users to (1) upload cookbooks via a knife cookbook upload command or (2) delete cookbooks via a knife cookbook delete command.

Affected products

• Opscode Chef: up to and including 0.9.16; 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.