CWE Code: 264
Vulnerability Type: privilege_escalation
CVSS Score: 5.5
CWE Name:  Permissions Privileges and Access Controls
Summary: 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.
Access Authentication: SINGLE
Access Complexity: LOW
Access Vector: NETWORK
Impact (C/I/A): NONE/PARTIAL/PARTIAL
Published Date: 2012-08-08
Last Modified Date: 2012-08-13