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openSUSE 15 Security Update : cobbler (openSUSE-SU-2024:0370-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 212497

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE- SU-2024:0370-1 advisory.

 Update to 3.3.7

 * Security: Fix issue that allowed anyone to connect to the API as admin (CVE-2024-47533, boo#1231332)
 * bind - Fix bug that prevents cname entries from being generated successfully
 * Fix build on RHEL9 based distributions (fence-agents-all split)
 * Fix for Windows systems
 * Docs: Add missing dependencies for source installation
 * Fix issue that prevented systems from being synced when the profile was edited

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected cobbler, cobbler-tests and / or cobbler-tests-containers packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1231332

http://www.nessus.org/u?01ada1fd

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-47533

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 212497

File Name: openSUSE-2024-0370-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/11/2024

Updated: 8/14/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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-2024-47533

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

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.6, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cobbler-tests-containers, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cobbler-tests, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cobbler

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/21/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/17/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-47533