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Cobbler vulnerable to arbitrary code execution

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 14, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Oct 10, 2023

Package

pip cobbler (pip)

Affected versions

<= 2.8.2

Patched versions

3.0.0

Description

Cobbler version up to 2.8.2 is vulnerable to a command injection vulnerability in the "add repo" component resulting in arbitrary code execution as root user.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jan 3, 2018
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 14, 2022
Reviewed Jul 26, 2023
Last updated Oct 10, 2023

Severity

Critical
9.8
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2017-1000469

GHSA ID

GHSA-96hw-v598-jvgh

Source code

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