Vulnerabilities > CVE-2020-1693 - XXE vulnerability in Redhat Spacewalk 1.6/2.6

047910
CVSS 9.8 - CRITICAL
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
HIGH
network
low complexity
redhat
CWE-611
critical
NVD
Published: 2020-02-17
Updated: 2024-11-21

Summary

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.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Redhat
3

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

References