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Ubuntu: USN-6475-1 (CVE-2018-1000225): Cobbler vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-6475-1 (CVE-2018-1000225): Cobbler vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
08/20/2018
Created
11/17/2023
Added
11/16/2023
Modified
11/15/2024

Description

Cobbler version Verified as present in Cobbler versions 2.6.11+, but code inspection suggests at least 2.0.0+ or possibly even older versions may be vulnerable contains a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in cobbler-web that can result in Privilege escalation to admin.. This attack appear to be exploitable via "network connectivity". Sending unauthenticated JavaScript payload to the Cobbler XMLRPC API (/cobbler_api).

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-cobbler
  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-cobbler-common
  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-cobbler-web
  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-koan
  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-python-cobbler
  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-python-koan

References

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