RHEL 6 : cobbler (RHSA-2018:2372)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 111623

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for cobbler.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:2372 advisory.

Cobbler is a network install server. Cobbler supports PXE, virtualized installs, and re-installing existing Linux machines. Cobbler has a XMLRPC API for integration with other applications.

Security Fix(es):

* cobbler: CobblerXMLRPCInterface exports all its methods over XMLRPC (CVE-2018-10931)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

This issue was discovered by Cedric Buissart (Red Hat).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL cobbler package based on the guidance in RHSA-2018:2372.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 111623

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-2372.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 8/10/2018

Updated: 8/23/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-10931

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cobbler, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/9/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/9/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-10931

CWE: 749

RHSA: 2018:2372

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