🛡️ CVE-2018-10931 — cobbler

🔴 CVSS 9.5 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-749 OSV
9.5
CVSS Score
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Description

Cobbler has Exposed Dangerous Method or Function

It was found that cobbler 2.6.x exposed all functions from its CobblerXMLRPCInterface class over XMLRPC. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to gain high privileges within cobbler, upload files to arbitrary location in the context of the daemon.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2018-10931 is classified as CWE-749: Exposed Dangerous Method or Function. A powerful method is reachable by callers who should not be able to invoke it.

Affected software

CVE-2018-10931 is recorded against 1 package.

  • cobbler (from 2.6.0 up to 3.0.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 13 May 2022 and last revised on 1 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
access.redhat.com (Web)
access.redhat.com (Web)
bugzilla.redhat.com (Web)
bugzilla.redhat.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
lists.fedoraproject.org (Web)
lists.fedoraproject.org (Web)
lists.fedoraproject.org (Web)
lists.fedoraproject.org (Web)
movermeyer.com (Web)

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-749
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-13
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-07-01
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
cobbler 2.6.0 3.0.0

References

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