Improper Authentication Affecting cobbler package, versions [3.1.2, 3.2.3) [3.3.0, 3.3.7)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-COBBLER-8384360
  • published 19 Nov 2024
  • disclosed 18 Nov 2024
  • credit Orion Poplawski

How to fix?

Upgrade cobbler to version 3.2.3, 3.3.7 or higher.

Overview

cobbler is a network install server.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Authentication due to the utils.get_shared_secret function. An attacker can gain full control of the server by connecting to the cobbler XML-RPC server using a hardcoded user and password.

CVSS Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
9.3 critical
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Attack Requirements (AT)
    None
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Confidentiality (VC)
    High
  • Integrity (VI)
    High
  • Availability (VA)
    High
  • Confidentiality (SC)
    None
  • Integrity (SI)
    None
  • Availability (SA)
    None