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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.8

CVE-2018-10931 in the critical feed json

Cobbler has Exposed Dangerous Method or Function

published 2018-08-09 8 y ago modified 2026-10-27 12 d ago also GHSA-8787-63px-3m23 , PYSEC-2026-313 , EUVD-2022-3134

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
68.1%
EPSS 68.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.3%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

It was found that cobbler 2.6.x exposed all functions from its CobblerXMLRPCInterface class over XMLRPC. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to gain high privileges within cobbler, upload files to arbitrary location in the context of the daemon.

Patch / fix

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

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2018-10931

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 network satellite 5.6 2.0.7-44.1.el6sat
  • cobbler network satellite 5.7 2.0.7-68.1.el6sat
  • cobbler network satellite 5.8 2.0.7-73.el6sat

red hat advisories RHSA-2018:2372

  • 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
  • cobbler SLES 11 SP4-CLIENT-TOOLS, SLES 11 SP3-CLIENT-TOOLS 2.2.2-0.68.6.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:2608-1SUSE-SU-2018:2561-1SUSE-SU-2018:2551-1SUSE-SU-2018:2550-1

  • 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-2018-10931 updated cvss 9.8

cobbler: CobblerXMLRPCInterface exports all its methods over XMLRPC

  • Red Hat Satellite 5.6 (RHEL v.6) cobbler 2.0.7-44.1.el6sat Red Hat Satellite 5.7 (RHEL v.6) cobbler 2.0.7-68.1.el6sat Red Hat Satellite 5.8 (RHEL v.6) cobbler 2.0.7-73.el6sat
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:2372
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 koan, python3-koan
    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

68.08% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.3% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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
>=2.6.0, <3.0.0
3.0.0

Affected products

  • The Cobbler Project cobbler

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-749 Exposed Dangerous Method or Function

References

Sources

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