Description
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 who has non-privileged access to the server. The users.digest file contains the sha2-512 digest of users in a Cobbler local installation. In the case of an easy-to-guess password, it's trivial to obtain the plaintext string. The settings.yaml file contains secrets such as the hashed default password.
Published: 2022-02-20
Score: 7.1 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-0041 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 who has non-privileged access to the server. The users.digest file contains the sha2-512 digest of users in a Cobbler local installation. In the case of an easy-to-guess password, it's trivial to obtain the plaintext string. The settings.yaml file contains secrets such as the hashed default password.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-5946-mpw5-pqxx Incorrect Default Permissions in Cobbler
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-6475-1 Cobbler vulnerabilities
History

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00028}

epss

{'score': 0.00026}


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Cobbler Project Cobbler
Fedoraproject Fedora
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T04:32:13.664Z

Reserved: 2021-12-16T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-45083

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-02-20T18:15:07.580

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:31:54.950

Link: CVE-2021-45083

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2022-02-18T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-45083 - Bugzilla

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