The web interface (CobblerWeb) in Cobbler before 1.2.9 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary Python code in cobblerd by editing a Cheetah kickstart template to import arbitrary Python modules.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - The web interface (CobblerWeb) in Cobbler before 1.2.9 allows remote authenticated users to execute
    arbitrary Python code in cobblerd by editing a Cheetah kickstart template to import arbitrary Python
    modules. (CVE-2008-6954)

Fixes a security vulnerability where a CobblerWeb user (if so configured) can import a Python module via a web-edited Cheetah template and run commands as root.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
432618	SCA: security update for cobbler (GHSA-p8w2-f44p-fmcj)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	critical
432618	SCA: security update for cobbler (GHSA-p8w2-f44p-fmcj)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	critical
34833	Fedora 9 : cobbler-1.2.9-1.fc9 (2008-9745)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
34828	Fedora 8 : cobbler-1.2.9-1.fc8 (2008-9723)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

Detections

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CVE-2008-6954

critical

Tenable Plugins

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critical

high

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