CVE-2020-1693

Published: Feb 17, 2020Updated: Nov 21, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVD BDUCWE-611

8.6HIGH

NVD MITRE

Description

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.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

Exploitability

AV:NAttack Vector

Network

AC:LAttack Complexity

Low

PR:NPrivileges Required

None

UI:NUser Interaction

None

Scope

S:UScope

Unchanged

Impact

C:HConfidentiality

High

I:LIntegrity

Low

A:LAvailability

Low

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Weaknesses

CWE-611

Affected Products

Red Hat Inc.

commercial·USaka Red Hat, redhat

spacewalkOn-premWeb App

Operating Systems / linux-distro

Red Hat SpacewalkOn-prem

Operating Systems / linux-distro

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Exploitability

1 exploit source identified

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MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques

Collection

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References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1693

bugzilla.redhat.com

https://github.com/spacewalkproject/spacewalk/commit/74e28ec61d916c42061ef4347121650a1c962b0c

github.com

https://zeroauth.ltd/blog/2020/02/18/proof-of-concept-exploit-for-cve-2020-1693-spacewalk/

zeroauth.ltd

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