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CVE-2018-10931 (GCVE-0-2018-10931)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-08-09 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 07:54
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2… x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2372 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
The Cobbler Project cobbler Affected: 2.6.x
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Date Public
2018-08-09 00:00
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