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CVE-2023-40050: Automate Vulnerable to Malicious Content Uploaded Through Embedded Compliance Application

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-10-31 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-94

Description

Upload profile either through API or user interface in Chef Automate prior to and including version 4.10.29 using InSpec check command with maliciously crafted profile allows remote code execution.

Affected products

• Progress Software Chef Automate: through 4.10.29

References

• https://community.progress.com/s/article/Product-Alert-Bulletin-October-2023-CHEF-Automate-CVE-2023-40050
• https://docs.chef.io/automate/profiles/
• https://docs.chef.io/release_notes_automate/
• https://community.progress.com/s/article/Product-Alert-Bulletin-October-2023-CHEF-Automate-CVE-2023-40050
• https://docs.chef.io/automate/profiles/
• https://docs.chef.io/release_notes_automate/

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