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critical 9.8

CVE-2017-1000469 json

Cobbler vulnerable to arbitrary code execution

published 8y ago modified 13d ago also GHSA-96hw-v598-jvgh , PYSEC-2026-314 , EUVD-2022-3303

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
5.6%
EPSS 5.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 92%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • pypi cobbler 3.0.0
  • cobbler Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 2.4.1-0ubuntu2+esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-1000469

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • cobbler OpenStack Cloud 8, Manager Server 3.0, Manager Client Tools 12 +1 more 2.6.6-49.9.1
  • cobbler Manager Server 3.1 2.6.6-5.10.4
  • google-gson Manager Server 3.1 2.8.2-3.3.6
  • susemanager Manager Server 3.1 3.1.14-2.19.5
  • spacewalk-web Manager Server 3.1 2.7.1.16-2.19.5
  • spacewalk-java Manager Server 3.1 2.7.46.14-2.25.1
  • spacewalk-utils Manager Server 3.1 2.7.10.7-2.10.4
  • susemanager-sls Manager Server 3.1 3.1.17-2.23.2

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:1736-1SUSE-SU-2018:1751-1SUSE-SU-2018:1741-1

  • cobbler openSUSE Tumbleweed 3.2.1.336+git.5639a3af-1.1
  • cobbler Package Hub 15 SP2 3.1.2-bp152.4.3.1
  • cobbler openSUSE Leap 15.2 3.1.2-lp152.6.3.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10690-1openSUSE-SU-2021:0058-1openSUSE-SU-2021:0046-1

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-1000469 updated cvss 6.6

cobbler: Command injection in the "add repo" component allows for remote code execution

  • Red Hat Satellite 5 cobbler
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

5.56% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/issues/1845 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
GitHub 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
OSV 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi cobbler
<3.0.0
3.0.0

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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