CVE-2018-10931

Publication date 9 August 2018

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
cobbler	23.10 mantic	Not in release
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not in release
	21.10 impish	Not in release
	21.04 hirsute	Not in release
	20.10 groovy	Not in release
	20.04 LTS focal	Not in release
	19.10 eoan	Not in release
	19.04 disco	Not in release
	18.10 cosmic	Not in release
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 2.4.1-0ubuntu2+esm1 Ubuntu Pro
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

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Notes

msalvatore

"All version of cobbler (at least since 2.0.7) are affected"

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-6475-1
Cobbler vulnerabilities
13 November 2023