CVE-2020-1693

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

Red Hat · spacewalk

CVSS v3.1 NVD

9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v3.1 REDHAT

8.6 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L

CVSS v2.0 NVD

7.5 HIGHAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS

4.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 91st percentile

Published

2020-02-17

Updated

2024-08-04

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

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

Security advisories

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

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry