CVE-2025-6723

CVE-2025-6723 : Red Hat and NVD entries describe that Chef InSpec up to version 5.23 creates named pipes with overly permissive default Windows access controls. A local attacker could interfere with the pipe connection process and exploit insufficient access restrictions to assume the InSpec exec...

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

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...