chef-server-api/app/controllers/clients.rb in Chef Server in Chef before 0.9.20, and 0.10.x before 0.10.6, does not require administrative privileges for creating admin clients, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging read permission for the validation key and executing a knife client create command with the --admin option.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2012-08-08T10:00:00Z

Updated: 2024-09-17T03:42:41.411Z

Reserved: 2012-08-08T00:00:00Z

Link: CVE-2011-5098

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2012-08-08T10:26:18.207

Modified: 2012-08-10T04:00:00.000

Link: CVE-2011-5098

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