GHSA-q9g5-98pm-w6q7

Cobbler XSS Vulnerability

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2018-1000225

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
PyPI	cobbler	<= 2.6.11	no fix listed

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 Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in cobbler-web that can result in Privilege escalation to admin.. This attack appear to be exploitable via "network connectivity". Sending unauthenticated JavaScript payload to the Cobbler XMLRPC API (/cobbler_api).

References

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

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000225 advisory
https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/issues/1917 web
https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler package
https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/blob/master/cobbler/remote.py#L2236 web
https://movermeyer.com/2018-08-02-privilege-escalation-exploits-in-cobblers-api web