CVE-2025-6723 — Untrusted user data can lead to privilege escalation

CVE-2025-6723

Untrusted user data can lead to privilege escalation PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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 (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
Progress Software / Chef Inspec	affected 0 through <=5.23, <7.0.107

CWE

CWE-269, CWE-287

References

https://docs.chef.io/inspec/

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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