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medium 6.1

CVE-2018-1000225 json

Cobbler XSS Vulnerability

published 2018-08-20 8 y ago modified 2026-07-07 4 mo ago also GHSA-q9g5-98pm-w6q7 , PYSEC-2026-796 , EUVD-2022-4929

cvss
6.1
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.3%
EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 70%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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).

Patch / fix

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

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2018-1000225

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

  • release-notes-susemanager Manager Server 3.1 3.1.8-5.38.1
  • release-notes-susemanager-proxy Manager Proxy 3.1 3.1.8-0.15.29.1
  • cobbler Manager Server 3.1 2.6.6-5.17.1
  • cobbler OpenStack Cloud 8, Manager Server 3.0, Manager Client Tools 12 +1 more 2.6.6-49.14.1
  • cobbler Manager Server 3.2 2.6.6-6.7.1

suse advisories SUSE-RU-2018:2639-1SUSE-SU-2018:2608-1SUSE-SU-2018:2561-1SUSE-SU-2018:2551-1

  • 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

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-2018-1000225 updated cvss 9.6

cobbler: Persistent XSS vulnerability in cobbler-web

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 koan, python3-koan
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Satellite 5 cobbler
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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

1.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 70% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
OSV 3.0 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
GitHub 3.0 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi cobbler
<=2.6.11
 no fix listed

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

Sources

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