CVE-2020-1693

State: Published
Severity: 8.6 High
Published: Feb 17, 2020
Updated: Aug 4, 2024
Reserved: Nov 27, 2019

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.6 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L	redhat

Weaknesses

CWE-611

Affected Products

Product	Versions
spacewalkRed Hat	All spacewalk versions up 2.9Affected

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1693
https://github.com/spacewalkproject/spacewalk/commit/74e28ec61d916c42061ef4347121650a1c962b0c
https://zeroauth.ltd/blog/2020/02/18/proof-of-concept-exploit-for-cve-2020-1693-spacewalk/

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