CVE-2021-40323

highpriority · attend · 69EPSS 0.868 · 100 %ileDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

86.8% (100th) EPSS

CVSS 7.5 · high

Is it mine?

4 products

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Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · cert_bund

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

Cobbler before 3.3.0 allows log poisoning, and resultant Remote Code Execution, via an XMLRPC method that logs to the logfile for template injection.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

9.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · high–critical · 7.5–9.8

v2.07.5highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 6.4

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 5.9

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Hsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-94USprimaryCWE-94US

affected products (4)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Ubuntu Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:-
n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
cobbler project cobbler≤ 3.3.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:cobbler_project:cobbler:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
PyPI cobbler< 3.3.0osvUSpkg:pypi/cobbler

advisories (3)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2023-2927cobbler: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2021-09-22csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in cobbler ausnutzen, um beliebigen Programmcode mit Administratorrechten auszuführen, vertrauliche Informationen offenzulegen und Sicherheitsmaßnahmen zu umgehen.
GHSA-cpqf-3c3r-c9g2Cobbler before 3.3.0 allows log poisoning2021-10-05ghsa · osvUS
Cobbler before 3.3.0 allows log poisoning, and resultant Remote Code Execution, via an XMLRPC method that logs to the logfile for template injection.
PYSEC-2021-3732021-10-04vendor · osvUS
Cobbler before 3.3.0 allows log poisoning, and resultant Remote Code Execution, via an XMLRPC method that logs to the logfile for template injection.

also known as (6)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd osv cert_bund nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2021-10-04modified 2026-06-17

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references (8)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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