GHSA-8787-63px-3m23

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    GHSA-8787-63px-3m23

    Published: 13 May 2022Last Modified: 29 Jun 2026

    Summary: Cobbler has Exposed Dangerous Method or Function

    Details: 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.

    References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-10931, https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/issues/1916, https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/pull/1921, https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/commit/1b91a3d3ac87c31d9dac2307513feb2aa49620a6, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2372, https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-10931, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1613861, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10931, https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5P5Q4ACIVZ5D4KSUDLGRTOKGGB4U42SD, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CMWK5KCCZXOGOYNR2H6BWDSABTQ5NYJA, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/5P5Q4ACIVZ5D4KSUDLGRTOKGGB4U42SD, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/CMWK5KCCZXOGOYNR2H6BWDSABTQ5NYJA, https://movermeyer.com/2018-08-02-privilege-escalation-exploits-in-cobblers-api

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: cobbler

    Purl: pkg:pypi/cobbler

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 2.6.0
    Fixed -3.0.0

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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