Privilege escalation in Cobbler - CVE-2018-10931

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Privilege escalation in Cobbler - CVE-2018-10931

Published: August 20, 2018 / Updated: August 21, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU14482
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 9.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-10931
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain elevated privileges on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to exposure of all functions from its CobblerXMLRPCInterface class over XMLRPC. A remote unauthenticated attacker can gain high privileges within cobbler, upload files to arbitrary location in the context of the daemon.


Affected software

Cobbler
Red Hat Satellite
Fedora
Opensuse
cobbler

How to mitigate CVE-2018-10931

Install update from vendor's website.

cobbler - addressed in versions 2.8.4-2.el7, 2.8.4-2.fc28, 2.8.4-2.fc29, 2.8.4-4.el7, 2.8.4-4.fc28, 2.8.4-4.fc29, 2.8.4-5.fc28, 2.8.4-5.fc29, 2.8.5-0.1.el7, 2.8.5-0.1.fc29, 2.8.5-0.1.fc30, 2.8.5-0.1.fc31, 3.0.1-1.fc31

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