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SCA: security update for cobbler (GHSA-5946-mpw5-pqxx)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 410710

Description

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

 - An issue was discovered in Cobbler before 3.3.1. Files in /etc/cobbler are world readable. Two of those
 files contain some sensitive information that can be exposed to a local user who has non-privileged access
 to the server. The users.digest file contains the sha2-512 digest of users in a Cobbler local
 installation. In the case of an easy-to-guess password, it's trivial to obtain the plaintext string. The
 settings.yaml file contains secrets such as the hashed default password. (CVE-2021-45083)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5946-mpw5-pqxx

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 410710

Version: Revision 1.6

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.04

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.6

Temporal Score: 2.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-45083

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Threat Score: 6.2

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/21/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/20/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-45083

cwe: CWE-276