CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-1000226
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-08-20
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-732
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 Incorrect Access Control vulnerability in XMLRPC API (/cobbler_api) that can result in Privilege escalation, data manipulation or exfiltration, LDAP credential harvesting. This attack appear to be exploitable via "network connectivity". Taking advantage of improper validation of security tokens in API endpoints. Please note this is a different issue than CVE-2018-10931.
Affected configurations
• cobblerd cobbler (>= 2.0.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource weakness
References
- https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/issues/1916 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://movermeyer.com/2018-08-02-privilege-escalation-exploits-in-cobblers-api/ Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/issues/1916 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://movermeyer.com/2018-08-02-privilege-escalation-exploits-in-cobblers-api/ Third Party Advisory