CVE-2018-1000225

MEDIUM6.1EPSS 0.27%

Cobbler XSS Vulnerability

Published: 5/14/2022Modified: 2/16/2024

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).

Affected packages (1)

PyPI/cobblerfrom 0, <= 2.6.11

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM6.1	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

References (5)

ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000225
PATCHhttps://github.com/cobbler/cobbler
WEBhttps://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/blob/master/cobbler/remote.py#L2236
WEBhttps://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/issues/1917
WEBhttps://movermeyer.com/2018-08-02-privilege-escalation-exploits-in-cobblers-api