Exploitation Summary
CVE-2018-1000226 has a Nuclei detection template available — see the Nuclei card below for the Shodan/FOFA recon queries.
Description
Cobbler version Verified as present in Cobbler versions 2.6.11+, but code inspection suggests at least 2.0.0+ or possibly even older versions may be vulnerable contains a Incorrect Access Control vulnerability in XMLRPC API (/cobbler_api) that can result in Privilege escalation, data manipulation or exfiltration, LDAP credential harvesting. This attack appear to be exploitable via "network connectivity". Taking advantage of improper validation of security tokens in API endpoints. Please note this is a different issue than CVE-2018-10931.
Nuclei Templates (1)
Cobbler - Authentication Bypass
CRITICALby c-sh0
Shodan:
http.title:"cobbler web interface"
FOFA:
title="cobbler web interface"
References (2)
Core 2
Core References
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://movermeyer.com/2018-08-02-privilege-escalation-exploits-in-cobblers-api/
Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/issues/1916
Scores
CVSS v3
9.8
EPSS
0.1248
EPSS Percentile
95.7%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-732
Status
published
Products (2)
cobblerd/cobbler
2.0.0
pypi/cobbler
0 - 3.0.0PyPI
Published
Aug 20, 2018
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026