Access Restriction Bypass The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package chef (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-CHEF-519319
- published8 Aug 2012
- disclosed8 Aug 2012
Introduced: 8 Aug 2012
CVE-2011-5097 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:11.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream chef package and not the chef package as distributed by Debian.
chef-server-api/app/controllers/cookbooks.rb in Chef Server in Chef before 0.9.18, and 0.10.x before 0.10.2, does not require administrative privileges for the update and destroy methods, which allows remote authenticated users to (1) upload cookbooks via a knife cookbook upload command or (2) delete cookbooks via a knife cookbook delete command.