CVE-2008-6954

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-08-12 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The web interface (CobblerWeb) in Cobbler before 1.2.9 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary Python code in cobblerd by editing a Cheetah kickstart template to import arbitrary Python modules.

Affected products

Michael Dehaan Cobbler: through 1.2.8; 0.1.1.7, 0.2.1, 0.2.2, 0.2.3, 0.2.5, 0.2.7 (+35)

References

http://freshmeat.net/projects/cobbler/releases/288374
http://osvdb.org/50291
http://secunia.com/advisories/32737
http://secunia.com/advisories/32804
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32317
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46625
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00462.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00485.html
http://freshmeat.net/projects/cobbler/releases/288374
http://osvdb.org/50291
http://secunia.com/advisories/32737
http://secunia.com/advisories/32804

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