CVE-2010-5142 Information

Description

chef-server-api/app/controllers/users.rb in the API in Chef before 0.9.0 does not require administrative privileges for the create destroy and update methods which allows remote authenticated users to manage user accounts via requests to the /users URI.

Reference

http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-1289 https://github.com/opscode/chef/commit/c3bb41f727fbe00e5de719d687757b24c8dcdfc8