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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD5.8 Medium

CVE-2025-6723

Untrusted user data can lead to privilege escalation

Description

Chef InSpec versions up to 5.23 and before 7.0.107 creates named pipes with overly permissive default Windows access controls. A local attacker may interfere with the pipe connection process and exploit the insufficient access restrictions to assume the InSpec execution context, potentially resulting in elevated privileges or operational disruption. This issue affects Chef Inspec: through 5.23 and before 7.0.107

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Progress Software Chef Inspec

Default version status: affected

  • 0 to ≤ <=5.23, <7.0.107affected

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