GHSA-f88q-22g8-frcg

Cobbler Improper Validation of Security Tokens

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Critical CVE-2018-1000226

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
PyPI	cobbler	< 3.0.0	3.0.0

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

Cobbler version Verified as present in Cobbler versions 2.6.11+, but code inspection suggests at least 2.0.0+ or possibly even older versions may be vulnerable contains a Incorrect Access Control vulnerability in XMLRPC API (/cobbler_api) that can result in Privilege escalation, data manipulation or exfiltration, LDAP credential harvesting. This attack appear to be exploitable via "network connectivity". Taking advantage of improper validation of security tokens in API endpoints. Please note this is a different issue than CVE-2018-10931.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000226 advisory
https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/issues/1916 web
https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler package
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/cobbler/PYSEC-2026-315.yaml web
https://movermeyer.com/2018-08-02-privilege-escalation-exploits-in-cobblers-api web
https://pypi.org/project/cobbler web