Bug 811937 (CVE-2011-4952)

Summary:	CVE-2011-4952 cobbler (cobbler-web): Absent CSRF protection when using Django framework
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	awood, dgoodwin, jpazdziora, shenson, vanmeeuwen+fedora
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	811942, 811943
Bug Blocks:	811959

Description Jan Lieskovsky 2012-04-12 11:11:47 UTC

It was found that when starting to use the Python Django web framework, the web interface of Cobbler, a network install server, failed to apply the Django built-in CSRF protection. A remote attacker could provide a specially-crafted web page, which once visited by an unsuspecting, valid Cobbler web interface user would potentially lead to unauthorized actions execution in the context of authenticated Cobbler user (the victim).

References:
[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/oneiric/+source/cobbler/+bug/858878

CVE Request:
[2] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/12/6

Ubuntu patch by Robie Basak:
[3] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~racb/ubuntu/oneiric/cobbler/858878_858883/revision/53

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2012-04-12 11:14:34 UTC

This issue affects the versions of the cobbler package, as shipped with Fedora
EPEL 5 and Fedora EPEL 6. Please schedule an update.

As of right now, this issue did NOT affect the current versions of the cobbler
package, as shipped with Fedora release of 15 and 16 (the cobbler-2.0.11-3.*
versions). But since there are cobbler-2.2.2-1.fc* versions scheduled to get
next stable versions and these are affected too, please schedule Fedora release
15 and 16 cobbler package versions updates too.

Comment 4 Jan Lieskovsky 2012-04-12 11:29:01 UTC

Created cobbler tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 811942]
Affects: epel-all [bug 811943]

Comment 6 Jan Lieskovsky 2012-04-12 11:33:18 UTC

This issue did NOT affect the versions of the cobbler package, as shipped with Red Hat Network Satellite Server version 5.4.1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6, since they did NOT include support for Cobbler web interface.

Comment 7 Kurt Seifried 2012-04-12 16:13:40 UTC

Added CVE as per http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/12/10

Comment 8 Jan Lieskovsky 2012-06-20 14:34:55 UTC

Statement:

This issue did not affect the version of cobbler as shipped with Red Hat Network Satellite Server 5.4 as Red Hat Network Satellite Server did not include support for Cobbler web interface.