CVE-2018-10931
cobbler: CobblerXMLRPCInterface exports all its methods over XMLRPC
Severity by source
Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD, GHSA, Red Hat. Rated lower by Ubuntu (medium).
Description
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.
Affected packages and fixed versions
| Source | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| pip::GitHub Security Advisory pip | cobbler | 3.0.0 |
| ubuntu 16.04-ESM | cobbler | 2.4.1-0ubuntu2+esm1 |
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/08/09/9
- 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://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/commit/1b91a3d3ac87c31d9dac2307513feb2aa49620a6
- https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/issues/1916
All 19 references
- https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/pull/1921
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/cobbler/PYSEC-2026-313.yaml
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5P5Q4ACIVZ5D4KSUDLGRTOKGGB4U42SD
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5P5Q4ACIVZ5D4KSUDLGRTOKGGB4U42SD/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CMWK5KCCZXOGOYNR2H6BWDSABTQ5NYJA
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CMWK5KCCZXOGOYNR2H6BWDSABTQ5NYJA/
- https://movermeyer.com/2018-08-02-privilege-escalation-exploits-in-cobblers-api
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-10931
- https://pypi.org/project/cobbler
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6475-1
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-10931