Remote Code Execution (RCE) Affecting cobbler package, versions [,3.1.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    1.74% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-COBBLER-3312075
  • published 7 Feb 2023
  • disclosed 17 May 2022
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade cobbler to version 3.1.2 or higher.

Overview

cobbler is a network install server.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Remote Code Execution (RCE) via the xmlrpc API. An attacker can send a request containing shell metacharacters in the username or password fields to the power_system() function to inject arbitrary commands.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
9.8 critical
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High
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NVD

7.3 high