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SCA: security update for cobbler (GHSA-96hw-v598-jvgh)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 432854

Description

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

 - Cobbler version up to 2.8.2 is vulnerable to a command injection vulnerability in the "add repo" component
 resulting in arbitrary code execution as root user. (CVE-2017-1000469)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-96hw-v598-jvgh

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 432854

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/11/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-1000469

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/14/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/3/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-1000469

cwe: CWE-20