THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2018-1000226
CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2018-1000226

Cobbler vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
12.5%
EPSS pct
96th
Exploited
No known
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 vendor
Cobblerd
Affected product
Cobbler
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-732 — Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
Published
2018-08-20

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 12.5% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2018-1000226

  • Confirm whether Cobblerd Cobbler is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2018-1000226.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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