{"id":75999,"date":"2026-01-30T17:46:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T14:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-6723-untrusted-user-data-can-lead-to-privilege-escalation\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T17:46:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T14:16:06","slug":"cve-2025-6723-untrusted-user-data-can-lead-to-privilege-escalation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-6723-untrusted-user-data-can-lead-to-privilege-escalation\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2025-6723 &#8211; Untrusted user data can lead to privilege escalation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2025-6723<\/p>\n<p>Published :  Jan. 30, 2026, 2:16 p.m. | 54\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>Description : Chef InSpec up to version 5.23 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.<\/p>\n<p>This issue affects Chef Inspec: through 5.23.<\/p>\n<p>Severity: 5.8 | MEDIUM<\/p>\n<p>Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2025-6723 Published : Jan. 30, 2026, 2:16 p.m. | 54\u00a0minutes ago Description : Chef InSpec up to version 5.23 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 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}