CVE-2014-3225

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Absolute path traversal vulnerability in the web interface in Cobbler 2.4.x through 2.6.x allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via the Kickstart field in a profile.

Published: 2014-05-14 Last update: 2026-05-06 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2014-3225 is rated High Exploit Risk (62.5/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 6.11%, 90th percentile). Core evidence: 4 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2014-3225

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
33252 exploit_db edb 2014-05-08 Exploit-DB ↗
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2014-3225

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-12-28 6.30% 6.11% -0.18%
2 2025-03-30 7.44% 6.30% -1.14%
3 2025-03-29 7.44%

Full EPSS history (11 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2014-3225

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:S)
A single authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
8.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2014-3225

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2014-3225

GHSA-xc7w-jvhx-p6q9 · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: pip — Cobbler Path Traversal vulnerability

OS Trackers for CVE-2014-3225

vendor priority summary link
redhat medium https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-3225
ubuntu medium CVE-2014-3225 medium priority: Ubuntu including 2 source packages (cobbler, maas-provision), 46 status rows across 23 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, lucid, mantic, precise, quantal, saucy, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): DNE 33, ignored 9, released 2, needs-triage 1, not-affected 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-3225

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2014-3225

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
cobblerd cobbler 2.4.0 cpe:2.3:a:cobblerd:cobbler:2.4.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
cobblerd cobbler 2.4.0 cpe:2.3:a:cobblerd:cobbler:2.4.0:1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cobblerd cobbler 2.4.1 cpe:2.3:a:cobblerd:cobbler:2.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cobblerd cobbler 2.4.2 cpe:2.3:a:cobblerd:cobbler:2.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cobblerd cobbler 2.4.3 cpe:2.3:a:cobblerd:cobbler:2.4.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cobblerd cobbler 2.4.4 cpe:2.3:a:cobblerd:cobbler:2.4.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cobblerd cobbler 2.6.0 cpe:2.3:a:cobblerd:cobbler:2.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2014-3225

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