CVE-2020-1693

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-1693
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-02-17 20:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:19:00 UTC
DescriptionA 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-611

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Redhat Spacewalk All All All All
Application Redhat Spacewalk All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
1790381 – (CVE-2020-1693) CVE-2020-1693 spacewalk: XML entity attacks on /rpc/api CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
1791164 - disable external entity parsing · spacewalkproject/spacewalk@74e28ec · GitHub MISC github.com Patch
Proof of Concept exploit for CVE-2020-1693 – Spacewalk – ZeroAuth MISC zeroauth.ltd Exploit, Third Party Advisory
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