CVE-2012-2395

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-06-16 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in action_power.py in Cobbler 2.2.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the (1) username or (2) password fields to the power_system method in the xmlrpc API.

Affected products

Michael Dehaan Cobbler: 2.2.0

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-05/msg00016.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-07/msg00000.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/23/18
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/23/4
http://www.osvdb.org/82458
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53666
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cobbler/+bug/978999
https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/commit/6d9167e5da44eca56bdf42b5776097a6779aaadf
https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/issues/141
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-05/msg00016.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-07/msg00000.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/23/18

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