Exposed Dangerous Method or Function Affecting cobbler package, versions <2.4.1-0ubuntu2+esm1


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
67.78% (99th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-COBBLER-537812
  • published13 Dec 2019
  • disclosed9 Aug 2018

Introduced: 9 Aug 2018

CVE-2018-10931  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-749  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:16.04 cobbler to version 2.4.1-0ubuntu2+esm1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream cobbler package and not the cobbler package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:16.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

It was found that cobbler 2.6.x exposed all functions from its CobblerXMLRPCInterface class over XMLRPC. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to gain high privileges within cobbler, upload files to arbitrary location in the context of the daemon.