Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in Cobbler, which can be exploited by malicious users to gain escalated privileges.
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TITLE:
Cobbler Web Interface Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA32737
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/32737/
CRITICAL:
Not critical
IMPACT:
Privilege escalation
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Cobbler 1.x
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/20513/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Cobbler, which can be exploited
by malicious users to gain escalated privileges.
The vulnerability is caused due to the Cobbler Web Interface allowing
users to edit kickstart templates, which can be imported as Python
modules via Cheetah to execute arbitrary Python code as root user.
Successful exploitation requires access to the Cobbler Web
Interface.
The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 1.2.9.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.2.9.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/cobbler/?branch_id=66473&release_id=288374
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