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FKIE_CVE-2018-1000225

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2018-08-20 20:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:32
Severity
6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Summary
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).
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/issues/1917Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://movermeyer.com/2018-08-02-privilege-escalation-exploits-in-cobblers-api/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/issues/1917Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://movermeyer.com/2018-08-02-privilege-escalation-exploits-in-cobblers-api/Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
cobblerd cobbler *
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