CVE-2021-40348 is a code injection vulnerability affecting Spacewalk 2.10 and derivatives like Uyuni 2021.08. It arises from improper sanitization of configuration filenames in the rhn-config-satellite.pl script, allowing an attacker to append arbitrary code to a root-owned file that is subsequently executed. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 8.8, indicating a critical risk with potential for complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability, and can be exploited over the network with user interaction. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2021.08CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:uyuni-project:uyuni:2021.08:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:spacewalk_project:spacewalk:2.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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