CVE-2025-6723

5.8 mediumEPSS 0.1%

Medium (5.8). EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

CVSS 4.0

5.8 medium

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:H/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 2% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWEs: CWE-269, CWE-287
Published: 2026-01-30
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

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

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