VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-7174

critical
Published 2017-03-17 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.8

Description

The user-account creation feature in Chef Manage 2.1.0 through 2.4.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. This is fixed in 2.4.5.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
chef_manage_projectchef_manage2.1.0
chef_manage_projectchef_manage2.1.1
chef_manage_projectchef_manage2.1.2
chef_manage_projectchef_manage2.2.0
chef_manage_projectchef_manage2.2.1
chef_manage_projectchef_manage2.3.0
chef_manage_projectchef_manage2.4.0
chef_manage_projectchef_manage2.4.1
chef_manage_projectchef_manage2.4.2
chef_manage_projectchef_manage2.4.3
chef_manage_projectchef_manage2.4.4

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.