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CVE-2020-1693

Red Hat spacewalk — A flaw was found in Spacewalk up to version 2.9 where it was vulnerable to XML internal entity attacks via the /rpc/api endpoint.

EPSS 4%CVSS 9.8
critical.is priorityof 100
48
CVSS 9.8 (NVD)9.8 / 10 × 3029.4Not in CISA KEV+300.0EPSS percentile 91.1.911 × 2018.2No public exploit+100.0SSVC exploitation: unknown+100.0
Description · from the CVE record

A flaw was found in Spacewalk up to version 2.9 where it was vulnerable to XML internal entity attacks via the /rpc/api endpoint. An unauthenticated remote attacker could use this flaw to retrieve the content of certain files and trigger a denial of service, or in certain circumstances, execute arbitrary code on the Spacewalk server.

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
spacewalkAll spacewalk versions up 2.9–CNA

Scores by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
redhat (CNA)8.6CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L

References

refbugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1693refgithub.com/spacewalkproject/spacewalk/commit/74e28ec61d916c42061ef4347121650a1c962b0crefzeroauth.ltd/blog/2020/02/18/proof-of-concept-exploit-for-cve-2020-1693-spacewalk