What is CVE-2018-1000226?

CVE-2018-1000226 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Cobblerd Cobbler, classified under Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2018-08-20.

How severe is CVE-2018-1000226?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Is CVE-2018-1000226 known to be exploited?

3 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Vulnerability in Cobblerd Cobbler

CVE-2018-1000226

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.

EPSS: 0.125 (95.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Cobblerd Cobbler
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-732 — Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-1000226?: CVE-2018-1000226 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Cobblerd Cobbler, classified under Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2018-08-20.
How severe is CVE-2018-1000226?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2018-1000226 known to be exploited?: 3 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.