9 High
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
0.004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
73.0%
Fixes a security vulnerability where a CobblerWeb user (if so configured) can import a Python module via a web-edited Cheetah template and run commands as root.
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Fedora Security Advisory 2008-9723.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(34828);
script_version("1.13");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/11");
script_cve_id("CVE-2008-6954");
script_bugtraq_id(32317);
script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2008-9723");
script_name(english:"Fedora 8 : cobbler-1.2.9-1.fc8 (2008-9723)");
script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package.");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"Fixes a security vulnerability where a CobblerWeb user (if so
configured) can import a Python module via a web-edited Cheetah
template and run commands as root.
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable
has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
without introducing additional issues."
);
# https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2008-November/016329.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?77f9a3d4"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:"Update the affected cobbler package."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:ND/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_cwe_id(264);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:cobbler");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:8");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2008/11/19");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2008/11/21");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2008-2021 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora");
os_ver = eregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! ereg(pattern:"^8([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 8.x", "Fedora " + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC8", reference:"cobbler-1.2.9-1.fc8")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
else security_hole(0);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "cobbler");
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
fedoraproject | fedora | cobbler | p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:cobbler |
fedoraproject | fedora | 8 | cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:8 |