CVE-2017-7174: Chef Manage Project Chef Manage

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The user-account creation feature in Chef Manage 2.1.0 through 2.4.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. This is fixed in 2.4.5.

Affected products

• Chef Manage Project Chef Manage: version 2.1.0 only; version 2.1.1 only; version 2.1.2 only; version 2.2.0 only; version 2.2.1 only; version 2.3.0 only; …

Published 2017-03-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.