{"id":"CVE-2011-5097","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2011-5097","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T02:17:43.812Z","title":"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…","description":"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.","published":"2012-08-08T10:26:18.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T23:35:56.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P"},"cwe":["CWE-264"],"affected":["opscode/chef"],"epss":{"score":0.01423,"percentile":0.72697,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.42%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-2436","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/opscode/chef/commit/a4ea6edab2fecb922f999cffb0daa04eeeec7a26","tags":["Patch"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-2436","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/opscode/chef/commit/a4ea6edab2fecb922f999cffb0daa04eeeec7a26","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-5097","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}