A cross-site request forgery vulnerability in Jenkins Chef Sinatra Plugin in the ChefBuilderConfiguration.DescriptorImpl#doTestConnection form validation method allows attackers to initiate a connection to an attacker-specified server.

A missing permission check in Jenkins Chef Sinatra Plugin in the ChefBuilderConfiguration.DescriptorImpl#doTestConnection form validation method allows attackers with Overall/Read permission to initiate a connection to an attacker-specified server.

The knife bootstrap command in chef Infra client before version 15.4.45 leaks the validator.pem private RSA key to /var/log/messages.

Blue Coat Advanced Secure Gateway 6.6, CacheFlow 3.4, ProxySG 6.5 and 6.6 allows remote attackers to bypass blocked requests, user authentication, and payload scanning.

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.

The Chef Manage (formerly opscode-manage) add-on before 1.12.0 for Chef allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted serialized data in a cookie.

The penguinchefshop (aka com.freegames.penguinchefshop) application 1.0.1 for Android does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate.

chef-server-api/app/controllers/clients.rb in Chef Server in Chef before 0.9.20, and 0.10.x before 0.10.6, does not require administrative privileges for creating admin clients, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging read permission for the validation key and executing a knife client create command with the --admin option.

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.

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.