Vulnerability · Published Oct 4, 2021 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2021-40323

Critical 9.8

In plain English

A critical-severity security flaw in the cobbler package (PyPI). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 86.8% (higher than 99.7% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: Nuclei. Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)9.8Critical
Exploit odds (30 days)86.8%top 0.3% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack tooling1Nuclei

Official description

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.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
PyPIcobbler3.3.0GHSA-cpqf-3c3r-c9g2
PyPIcobbler3.3.0PYSEC-2021-373

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a n/a n/a

References