[CVE-2025-8868] Cooking an SQL Injection Vulnerability in Chef Automate
xbow.com | vulnerability | High | CVE-2025-8868 | #vulnerability-research | #devops | #sql-injection | #postgresql | #default-credentials | #chef-automate
Summary
Details an SQL injection in Chef Automate found via a little-known default data-collector token, letting authenticated attackers run arbitrary SQL against its PostgreSQL database.
- CVE
- CVE-2025-8868
- CVSS
- 8.8
- Published
- Collected
--- id: 5202 title: "[CVE-2025-8868] Cooking an SQL Injection Vulnerability in Chef Automate" cve: CVE-2025-8868 cvss: 8.8 severity: high source_domain: xbow.com source_url: "https://xbow.com/blog/cooking-an-sql-injection-vulnerability-in-chef-automate" published_at: "2025-09-30T12:00:00Z" tags: ["vulnerability-research", "devops", "sql-injection", "postgresql", "default-credentials", "chef-automate"] phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/5202" lang: en --- # [CVE-2025-8868] Cooking an SQL Injection Vulnerability in Chef Automate ## Summary Details an SQL injection in Chef Automate found via a little-known default data-collector token, letting authenticated attackers run arbitrary SQL against its PostgreSQL database. ## Intelligence Metadata - **Sources:** xbow.com - **CVE:** CVE-2025-8868 - **CVSS:** 8.8 - **Published:** 2025-09-30T12:00:00Z - **Original:** https://xbow.com/blog/cooking-an-sql-injection-vulnerability-in-chef-automate - **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/5202