CVE-2024-47533 Information

Description

Cobbler a Linux installation server that allows for rapid setup of network installation environments has an improper authentication vulnerability starting in version 3.0.0 and prior to versions 3.2.3 and 3.3.7. utils.get_shared_secret() always returns -1 which allows anyone to connect to cobbler XML-RPC as user '' password -1 and make any changes. This gives anyone with network access to a cobbler server full control of the server. Versions 3.2.3 and 3.3.7 fix the issue.

Reference

https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/security/advisories/GHSA-m26c-fcgh-cp6h https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/commit/32c5cada013dc8daa7320a8eda9932c2814742b0 https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/commit/e19717623c10b29e7466ed4ab23515a94beb2dda