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RHEL 6 : cobbler (RHSA-2018:2372)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 111623

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

An update for cobbler is now available for Red Hat Satellite 5.6, Red Hat Satellite 5.7, and Red Hat Satellite 5.8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Cobbler is a network install server. Cobbler supports PXE, virtualized installs, and re-installing existing Linux machines. Cobbler has a XMLRPC API for integration with other applications.

Security Fix(es) :

* cobbler: CobblerXMLRPCInterface exports all its methods over XMLRPC (CVE-2018-10931)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

This issue was discovered by Cedric Buissart (Red Hat).

Solution

Update the affected cobbler package.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2372

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-10931

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 111623

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-2372.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/10/2018

Updated: 10/24/2019

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cobbler, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Patch Publication Date: 8/9/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/9/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-10931

RHSA: 2018:2372