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SCA: security update for cobbler (GHSA-f88q-22g8-frcg)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 431774

Description

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

 - 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. (CVE-2018-1000226)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-f88q-22g8-frcg

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 431774

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/7/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-1000226

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/20/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1000226

cwe: CWE-732