CVE-2018-1000225

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-08-20 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cobbler version Verified as present in Cobbler versions 2.6.11+, but code inspection suggests at least 2.0.0+ or possibly even older versions may be vulnerable contains a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in cobbler-web that can result in Privilege escalation to admin.. This attack appear to be exploitable via "network connectivity". Sending unauthenticated JavaScript payload to the Cobbler XMLRPC API (/cobbler_api).

Affected products

cobbler: all versions

References

https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/issues/1917
https://movermeyer.com/2018-08-02-privilege-escalation-exploits-in-cobblers-api/
https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/issues/1917
https://movermeyer.com/2018-08-02-privilege-escalation-exploits-in-cobblers-api/

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