CVE-2021-40323

openSUSE Security Advisory - openSUSE-SU-2022:0062-1

Severity Score

9.8

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

Cobbler before 3.3.0 allows log poisoning, and resultant Remote Code Execution, via an XMLRPC method that logs to the logfile for template injection.

Cobbler versiones anteriores a 3.3.0, permite un envenenamiento de registros, y la resultante Ejecución de Código Remota , por medio de un método XMLRPC que se registra en el archivo de registro para la inyección de plantillas

An update that solves 6 vulnerabilities and has 6 fixes is now available. This update for cobbler fixes the following issues. Fixed unsafe permissions on sensitive files. Fixed incomplete template sanitation. Fixed Remote Code Execution in the XMLRPC API which additionally allowed arbitrary file read and write as root. The following non-security bugs were fixed. Boot_loader is not set destination directory is not existing.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Partial

Integrity

Partial

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2021-08-30 CVE Reserved
2021-10-04 CVE Published
2024-08-04 CVE Updated
2025-05-08 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-94: Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

CAPEC

References (2)

URL	Tag	Source
https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/releases/tag/v3.3.0	Product

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/commit/d8f60bbf14a838c8c8a1dba98086b223e35fe70a	2021-10-12

URL	Date	SRC

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Cobbler Project Search vendor "Cobbler Project"		Cobbler Search vendor "Cobbler Project" for product "Cobbler"				<= 3.3.0 Search vendor "Cobbler Project" for product "Cobbler" and version " <= 3.3.0"		-		Affected