Chef Infra Client 18 End of Life Date
Chef Infra Client 18 end-of-life date, support status, and CVE risk. Data reconciled from official vendor documentation and endoflife.date at every build; the source of each date is on the product page.
Chef Infra Client 18 was released on September 28, 2022 and has no published end-of-life date yet. Its most recent patch is 18.11.11, published July 10, 2026.
What does Chef Infra Client 18 end of life mean?
When Chef Infra Client 18 reaches end of life, the maintainers stop issuing security patches for this version. CVEs discovered after the EOL date are publicly disclosed on the National Vulnerability Database with no patch available. Exploit code frequently appears on GitHub within days of disclosure.
The CVE blind spot: A CVE-based scan does not show the ongoing accumulation of unpatched vulnerabilities in EOL software versions. Some scanners flag unsupported versions of common products, but coverage varies, and none of them give you the date in advance. Running Chef Infra Client 18 past its EOL date creates a growing attack surface that a clean scan result does not rule out.
Migrate to Chef Infra Client 19 or implement compensating controls — network segmentation, enhanced monitoring, restricted access — while migration is underway.