CVE-2012-2395 Information

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.

Reference

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