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CVE-2025-8868

INDEX BUILT · 2026-09-20

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Chef Automate compliance service SQL Injection Vulnerability

CVE-2025-88684 of 4 sources documented this
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rank 33 = 6 + 22 + 1 + 4 + 0

rank@v1 · scheduled

Someone is already using it

CISA KEV catalog · public proof-of-concept · FIRST EPSS

EPSS 0.24317  ·  without this subject the record ranks 27

What it costs you if it fires

NVD CVSS base score, then the CNA's own

CVSS 8.8, from NVD  ·  without this subject the record ranks 11

It is getting worse, not staying still

FIRST EPSS series, rescorings and bad loads removed

rose on 2025-10-08  ·  without this subject the record ranks 32

How much of the world it touches

NVD CPE configurations

2 products in the CPE ranges  ·  without this subject the record ranks 29

Someone else already set the date

CISA KEV remediation due date

no CISA due date  ·  without this subject the record ranks 33

Unaudited dollar value2 of 3 inputs carry a receipt
Exposure$1.21Mover the next 30 days, if this record is yours
Movement+$188,000on 2025-11-21, the last material move, 9 months before this reading
Basisassumeda published average, not your estate

$1.21M = $4.99M incident cost x 1 exposure x 0.24317 likelihood

udv@v1 · unaudited · wrong for you until you say what you run

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Hindsight · the state

0.24317EPSSNOT IN KEVas of 2026-09-20
Severity9.8 CRITICALreceipt
Harmtotal loss · unauthenticatedreceipt
Exploitationnone in held sources
Defensefix version namedreceipt
Movementdoubled within 72hreceipt
PLATEAU10Minimal movement since 2026-03-25, 158 days at 0.24, as of 2026-08-30. arc-rules@v1

Foresight · where to check next

CVE-2023-49103CVE-2008-0655CVE-2016-6415Cisco Adaptiveminiometabase8868

This record is one instance of CWE-200, exposure of sensitive information to an unauthorized actor. The index holds 11146 prior instances of this class, 18 KEV-listed. The nearest of its KEV-listed records are drawn beside this. taxonomy@v1

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Color is a claim, not decoration:the hostile worldthe defenseno signalspoke length is how much of the record matches, not how bad it is

Sources disagree here.

Severity score
ProgressSoftware9.8 CRITICALreceipt
NVD8.8 HIGHreceipt

Both shown, dated. We don't pick winners. disagreement-rules@v1

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Reachnetwork-reachable · no privileges required · no user interaction · low attack complexityreceipt
ImpactComplete confidentiality, integrity and availability lossreceipt
Scored fromCVSS v3.1 · the CNA's vectorreceipt
Weakness classCWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor; CWE-89 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL…receipt
Published consequencesCWE-200: Confidentiality: Read Application Data[email protected]

CISA KEV & Federal Remediation Deadline from the record and CISA

The fix, and how long it's been waiting.

Fixed in4.13.295receipt
Patch available sinceNo dated patch-availability record in held sources. The index holds reference URLs without dates and only the current revision of the CVE record, so the day a fix first existed cannot be derived. Only the versions it landed in.

Exploit Status & Known PoCs a ladder, not a score

Current rung: Nothing observed in held sources.

  • RUNG 1Nothing observed in held sources
  • RUNG 2Proof-of-concept published
  • RUNG 3Exploited in the wild · CISA KEV listed
  • RUNG 4Ransomware campaign use known

Authority who says so

CVSS, the CNA9.8 CRITICALreceipt
CVSS, NVD8.8 HIGHreceipt
Exploit probability0.24317 · top 2% of all CVEsreceipt
Blast breadth1 product across 1 vendorderived
Assigned byProgressSoftwarereceipt
Recorded changes40 · last 19 Sep 2026derived

Affected & Fixed Versions as published

Affected productProgress Software Chef Automatereceipt
Published rangeschef automate < 4.13.295; chef automate >= 20180319150121 <= 20220329091442receipt
Fixed in4.13.295receipt

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Attack path

Unauthenticated network requestno credentials, no interactionProgress Software Chef AutomateCWE-200 information exposureFull compromise (C/I/A)C:H / I:H / A:Hexploits CWE-200data compromise

What it is stated by the CNA

In Progress Chef Automate, versions earlier than 4.13.295, on Linux x86 platform, an authenticated attacker can gain access to Chef Automate restricted functionality in the compliance service via improperly neutralized inputs used in an SQL command using a well-known token. receipt

NVD's analysis a second authority

severity
8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
weakness
CWE-89; CWE-200
affected versions
chef automate < 4.13.295; chef automate >= 20180319150121 <= 20220329091442
also scored by
[email protected] 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

The CNA scored it 9.8 and NVD 8.8. Both are shown because both were published; we do not pick one.

check it yourself docs.chef.io receipt

Dated events

2025-10-08EPSS moved 0.00 to 0.082025-11-21EPSS moved 0.10 to 0.13

Movement the material steps

29 Sep 20250.00048
20 Oct 20250.10618 · crossed 0.10
18 Nov 20250.09623 · crossed 0.10
21 Nov 20250.13383 · crossed 0.10
15 Jun 20260.23138 · scoring model v2026.06.15
30 Aug 20260.24317

This score more than doubled inside 72 hours. Both observations are in the full history below.

Show all 40 observations
29 Sep 20250.00048
5 Oct 20250.00063
7 Oct 20250.00062
8 Oct 20250.07835
17 Oct 20250.08107
20 Oct 20250.10618
31 Oct 20250.11989
1 Nov 20250.16741
4 Nov 20250.11989
17 Nov 20250.10513
18 Nov 20250.09623
21 Nov 20250.13383
23 Nov 20250.14717
1 Dec 20250.17219
4 Dec 20250.14717
6 Dec 20250.16597
15 Dec 20250.17119
24 Dec 20250.18444
1 Jan 20260.19913
4 Jan 20260.18444
18 Jan 20260.14453
21 Jan 20260.13551
29 Jan 20260.1409
1 Feb 20260.17278
4 Feb 20260.1409
25 Feb 20260.17566
26 Feb 20260.16438
1 Mar 20260.16077
4 Mar 20260.16438
6 Mar 20260.14361
9 Mar 20260.13849
25 Mar 20260.15329
27 Mar 20260.17319
4 Apr 20260.15943
9 Apr 20260.17258
16 May 20260.21784
25 May 20260.19853
15 Jun 20260.23138
25 Jun 20260.22827
30 Aug 20260.24317

40 observations held. A highlighted step crossed a promotion threshold. A step marked with a scoring model moved because the instrument was replaced, not because the vulnerability changed. receipt

The full biography

EPSS 0.24317Published2025-09-29Index as of2026-08-30

Exploit probability more than doubled between 2025-10-07 and 2025-10-08 (0.00062 → 0.07835) and the record had been public for 11 months when this index was last written.

Published 2025-09-29 receipt · Index as of 2026-08-30 derived

The pattern, elsewhere

This record is one instance of CWE-200, exposure of sensitive information to an unauthorized actor. The index holds 11146 prior instances of this class, 18 KEV-listed. The nearest of its KEV-listed records are drawn beside this. [email protected]

CVE-2023-49103matches 7 of 9KEV listed · 2023receipt
CVE-2008-0655matches 7 of 9KEV listed · 2008receipt
CVE-2016-6415matches 6 of 9KEV listed · 2016receipt
CVE-2020-3259 · Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA)…matches 6 of 10KEV listed · 2020receipt
CVE-2023-28432 · miniomatches 6 of 10KEV listed · 2023receipt
CVE-2021-41277 · metabasematches 6 of 10KEV listed · 2021receipt

"Matches n of m" counts the attributes the two records can both be compared on: the CVSS metrics they share a version of, any weakness class beyond this one, and the vendor. fit-rules@v1

11146 records in this class held. The six above are drawn from the ones CISA has listed as exploited, ranked by how much of the record matches this one. That is why every one of them is KEV-listed: the pool is, so the colour on those spokes says nothing the pool has not already said.

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Its defect family

progress software chef automate

Of the 2 records in this family, this is the only one whose title names compliance service.

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