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CVE-2010-2235

24
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-2235 describes a critical vulnerability in Cobbler before version 2.0.7, including its use in Red Hat Network Satellite Server, where the Cheetah template engine fails to disable Python statement execution within templates. This allows remote authenticated administrators to execute arbitrary code by uploading a crafted kickstart template file. With a CVSS score of 8.5, this vulnerability is highly severe, requiring network access and authenticated user privileges but leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:michael_dehaan:cobbler:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.1.1.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:michael_dehaan:cobbler:0.1.1.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:michael_dehaan:cobbler:0.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:michael_dehaan:cobbler:0.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.2.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:michael_dehaan:cobbler:0.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

8.5HIGH

AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
6.8
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.33%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0333 is in the 84th percentile among its peer group of 1,162 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: cobblerFixed in: 2.0.7
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Network Satellite Server v 5.3Fixed in: cobbler-0:1.6.6-15.el5sat
View patch

Vendor Advisories (2)

pipGHSA-jhm7-38xj-pvm8high

Cobbler is vulnerable to code injection

May 17, 2022
redhatCVE-2010-2235Important

(cobbler): Code injection flaw (ACE as root) by processing of a specially-crafted kickstart template file

Oct 18, 2010

References

people.fedoraproject.org / ~shenson/cobbler/cobbler-2.0.8.tar.gz
Patch
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2010-0775.html