RHSA-2018:2372 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for cobbler is now available for Red Hat Satellite 5.6, Red Hat Satellite 5.7, and Red Hat Satellite 5.8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Cobbler is a network install server. Cobbler supports PXE, virtualized installs, and re-installing existing Linux machines. Cobbler has a XMLRPC API for integration with other applications.

Security Fix(es):

• cobbler: CobblerXMLRPCInterface exports all its methods over XMLRPC (CVE-2018-10931)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

This issue was discovered by Cedric Buissart (Red Hat).

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

For this update to take effect, Red Hat Satellite must be restarted ("/usr/sbin/rhn-satellite restart").

Affected Products

• Red Hat Satellite 5.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Satellite 5.8 s390x
• Red Hat Satellite 5.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Satellite 5.7 s390x
• Red Hat Satellite 5.6 for RHEL 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Satellite 5.6 for RHEL 6 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 1613861 - CVE-2018-10931 cobbler: CobblerXMLRPCInterface exports all its methods over XMLRPC

CVEs

• CVE-2018-10931

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical