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Medium · 5.8 CVE-2025-6723 EUVD-2025-206578GHSA-qqgm-c595-2xpg

Untrusted user data can lead to privilege escalation

Published Jan 30, 2026 · Updated Mar 11, 2026 · Assigned by ProgressSoftware

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

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Progress Software Chef Inspec ≤ <=5.23, <7.0.107 —

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