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Advisory details: pypa / cobbler/PYSEC-2026-795
Advisory ID pypa/cobbler/PYSEC-2026-795
Aliases CVE-2008-6954
GHSA-p8w2-f44p-fmcj
PYSEC-2026-795
Summary Cobbler Web Interface Kickstart Template Remote Privilege Escalation Vulnerability The web interface (CobblerWeb) in Cobbler before 1.2.9 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary Python code with the root privileges in cobblerd by editing a Cheetah kickstart template to import arbitrary Python modules.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 0.0
Risk
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Introduced and Fixed Package Commit Patches Package Commit Patches Details
Weaknesses (0)
There are no known CWE.
System Score Found at
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Reference id Reference type URL
http://freshmeat.net/projects/cobbler/releases/288374
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46625
https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler
https://pypi.org/project/cobbler
https://web.archive.org/web/20111227125913/http://secunia.com/advisories/32804
https://web.archive.org/web/20111227151912/http://secunia.com/advisories/32737
https://web.archive.org/web/20200228143518/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32317
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00462.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00485.html
CVE-2008-6954 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-6954
GHSA-p8w2-f44p-fmcj https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p8w2-f44p-fmcj
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Patch URL
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There are no known vectors.

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