GHSA-8787-63px-3m23
Cobbler has Exposed Dangerous Method or Function
Packages
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
It was found that cobbler 2.6.x exposed all functions from its CobblerXMLRPCInterface class over XMLRPC. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to gain high privileges within cobbler, upload files to arbitrary location in the context of the daemon.
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-10931
- https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/issues/1916
- https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/pull/1921
- https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/commit/1b91a3d3ac87c31d9dac2307513feb2aa49620a6
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2372
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-10931
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1613861
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10931
- https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/cobbler/PYSEC-2026-313.yaml
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5P5Q4ACIVZ5D4KSUDLGRTOKGGB4U42SD
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CMWK5KCCZXOGOYNR2H6BWDSABTQ5NYJA
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/5P5Q4ACIVZ5D4KSUDLGRTOKGGB4U42SD
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/CMWK5KCCZXOGOYNR2H6BWDSABTQ5NYJA
- https://movermeyer.com/2018-08-02-privilege-escalation-exploits-in-cobblers-api
- https://pypi.org/project/cobbler