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

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.05% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-COBBLER-8384360
  • published19 Nov 2024
  • disclosed18 Nov 2024
  • creditOrion Poplawski

Introduced: 18 Nov 2024

CVE-2024-47533  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-287  (opens in a new tab)

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