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CVE-2010-5142

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2012-08-08 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

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: through 0.8.10; 0.7.2, 0.7.4, 0.7.6, 0.7.8, 0.7.10, 0.7.12 (+5)

References

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

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