cobbler: Local privilege escalation due use of insecure (world writable) location for PYTHON_EGG_CACHE cache
Published Nov 19, 2019
7.8
HIGHCVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.34%
Description
cobbler has local privilege escalation via the use of insecure location for PYTHON_EGG_CACHE
Affected products
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- Version 2011-09-28StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version
No data.
No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
Red Hat statement
This issue did not affect the version of cobbler as shipped with Red Hat Network Satellite Server 5.4 as it did not include the upstream commit be4fc806637cf8cec275fea80b892182879580eb that introduced this flaw.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (9 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 0.34% (0.00341) | 25.22th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 0.34% (0.00341) | 25.74th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 0.04% (0.00043) | 10.37th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 0.04% (0.00042) | 5.07th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 0.04% (0.00042) | 5.63th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 0.95% (0.00950) | 32.28th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Sep 10, 2022 | 0.95% (0.00950) | 30.63th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 0.95% (0.00950) | 28.61th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 0.95% (0.00950) | 13.46th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
References (9)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/12/10 x_refsource_MISCMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-4954 Vendor Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-4954 x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-4954 x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=811926 Issue Tracking
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-4954 x_refsource_MISCIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-4954
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-4954 x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-4954
| Link | Providers | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/12/10 | x_refsource_MISCMailing ListThird Party Advisory | |
| https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-4954 | Vendor Advisory | |
| https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-4954 | x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory | |
| https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-4954 | x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory | |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=811926 | Issue Tracking | |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-4954 | x_refsource_MISCIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory | |
| https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-4954 | ||
| https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-4954 | x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory | |
| https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-4954 |
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