{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-6723 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2025-6723 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2025-6723 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Progress Software Chef Inspec, published on 30 Jan 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2025-6723 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-6723 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Progress Software Chef Inspec, published on 30 Jan 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-6723 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Progress Software Chef Inspec. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-6723/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-6723/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-6723","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-6723/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-6723","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-qqgm-c595-2xpg"],"analysis":{"component_type":"developer_tool","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["privilege_escalation","denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Chef InSpec","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Local attackers can exploit overly permissive named pipes in Chef InSpec to assume execution context, leading to privilege escalation or operational disruption.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"privilege_escalation"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"ProgressSoftware","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":5.8,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"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","version":"4.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-287","name":"Improper Authentication"},{"id":"CWE-269","name":"Improper Privilege Management"}],"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.\n\nThis issue affects Chef Inspec: through 5.23 and before 7.0.107","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":false,"headline":"Untrusted user data can lead to privilege escalation","id":"CVE-2025-6723","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"privilege_escalation","year":"2025"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":1,"next":{"headline":"Chef Automate SQL Injection Vulnerability","id":"CVE-2025-6724"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"BitFire \u003c= 4.5 - Unauthenticated Information Exposure","id":"CVE-2025-6722"},"products":["Chef Inspec"],"published":"2026-01-30","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-03-11","vendors":["Progress Software"]},"summary":"Local attackers can exploit overly permissive named pipes in Chef InSpec to assume execution context, leading to privilege escalation or operational disruption.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-6723/"}