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2 vulnerabilities found for Chef Inspec by Progress Software
CVE-2025-6723 (GCVE-0-2025-6723)
Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2026-01-30 14:09 – Updated: 2026-03-11 14:30
VLAI?
Title
Untrusted user data can lead to privilege escalation
Summary
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
Severity ?
Assigner
References
| URL | Tags | |
|---|---|---|
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Progress Software | Chef Inspec |
Affected:
0 , ≤ <=5.23, <7.0.107
(customer on-prem)
|
Credits
Yuval Gordon, Akamai
Maayan Shaul, Microsoft
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CVE-2025-6723 (GCVE-0-2025-6723)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-30 14:09 – Updated: 2026-03-11 14:30
VLAI?
Title
Untrusted user data can lead to privilege escalation
Summary
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
Severity ?
Assigner
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| URL | Tags | |
|---|---|---|
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| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Progress Software | Chef Inspec |
Affected:
0 , ≤ <=5.23, <7.0.107
(customer on-prem)
|
Credits
Yuval Gordon, Akamai
Maayan Shaul, Microsoft
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