Cobbler is a provisioning and lifecycle-management platform deployed across infrastructure automation and bare-metal deployment workflows, where its role in handling sensitive credentials and system configuration places it at a critical juncture in the deployment pipeline. Vulnerabilities affecting the vendor skew strongly toward critical severity and recur through weakness classes including improper input validation, cleartext transmission of credentials, exposed administrative functions, authorization bypass, and code injection—issues characteristic of a system that bridges configuration management and privileged system access. Defenders should treat Cobbler instances as high-value targets requiring network isolation, access controls, and priority patching; live severity, exploitation, and exposure counts are shown alongside this summary.
The number and severity of CVEs published that impact products developed by Cobbler Project over time
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (11 CVEs).
11 CVEs · Highest risk first
| CVE | Published | CVSS | Risk | KEV | Exploit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CVE-2021-40323CRITICAL Cobbler before 3.3.0 allows log poisoning, and resultant Remote Code Execution, via an XMLRPC method that logs to the logfile for template injection. | Oct 4, 2021 | 9.8 | 86 | NO | YES |
CVE-2018-10931CRITICAL It was found that cobbler 2.6.x exposed all functions from its CobblerXMLRPCInterface class over XMLRPC. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to gain high privile | Aug 9, 2018 | 9.8 | 69 | NO | NO |
CVE-2021-40324HIGH Cobbler before 3.3.0 allows arbitrary file write operations via upload_log_data. | Oct 4, 2021 | 7.5 | 62 | NO | NO |
CVE-2017-1000469CRITICAL Cobbler version up to 2.8.2 is vulnerable to a command injection vulnerability in the "add repo" component resulting in arbitrary code execution as root user. | Jan 3, 2018 | 9.8 | 30 | NO | NO |
CVE-2021-45082HIGH An issue was discovered in Cobbler before 3.3.1. In the templar.py file, the function check_for_invalid_imports can allow Cheetah code to import Python modules via the "#from MODUL | Feb 19, 2022 | 7.8 | 25 | NO | NO |
CVE-2021-40325HIGH Cobbler before 3.3.0 allows authorization bypass for modification of settings. | Oct 4, 2021 | 7.5 | 25 | NO | NO |
CVE-2021-45083HIGH An issue was discovered in Cobbler before 3.3.1. Files in /etc/cobbler are world readable. Two of those files contain some sensitive information that can be exposed to a local user | Feb 20, 2022 | 7.1 | 24 | NO | NO |
CVE-2011-4953MEDIUM The set_mgmt_parameters function in item.py in cobbler before 2.2.2 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors related to the use of the yaml.load fun | Oct 27, 2014 | 6.8 | 24 | NO | NO |
CVE-2022-0860CRITICAL Improper Authorization in GitHub repository cobbler/cobbler prior to 3.3.2. | Mar 11, 2022 | 9.1 | 23 | NO | NO |
CVE-2016-9605MEDIUM A flaw was found in cobbler software component version 2.6.11-1. It suffers from an invalid parameter validation vulnerability, leading the arbitrary file reading. The flaw is trig | Aug 22, 2018 | 6.1 | 22 | NO | NO |
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (11 CVEs).
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