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CVE-2025-6723: Untrusted user data can lead to privilege escalation
- Severity: medium (CVSS 5.8 v4.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2026-01-30 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-269
Description
Chef InSpec versions up to 5.23 and before 7.0.107 creates named pipes with overly permissive default Windows access controls. A local attacker may interfere with the pipe connection process and exploit the insufficient access restrictions to assume the InSpec execution context, potentially resulting in elevated privileges or operational disruption. This issue affects Chef Inspec: through 5.23 and before 7.0.107
Affected products
- Progress Software Chef Inspec: through <=5.23, <7.0.107
References
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