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CVE-2018-1000225

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-1000225 describes a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Cobbler's web interface (cobbler-web), affecting versions 2.6.11 and potentially older. This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to achieve privilege escalation to administrator by sending a malicious JavaScript payload to the Cobbler XMLRPC API. Rated as Medium severity with a CVSS score of 6.1, the attack requires network connectivity and user interaction (UI:R) to trigger the XSS. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cobblerd:cobbler:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.1MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
2.7
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.26%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
66.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0126 is in the 79th percentile among its peer group of 26,219 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: cobbler

Vendor Advisories (2)

pipGHSA-q9g5-98pm-w6q7medium

Cobbler XSS Vulnerability

May 14, 2022
redhatCVE-2018-1000225Important

cobbler: Persistent XSS vulnerability in cobbler-web

Aug 2, 2018

References

github.com / cobbler/cobbler/issues/1917
Third Party Advisory
movermeyer.com / 2018-08-02-privilege-escalation-exploits-in-cobblers-api
Third Party Advisory