CVE-2021-45082: Cobbler Project Cobbler

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in Cobbler before 3.3.1. In the templar.py file, the function check_for_invalid_imports can allow Cheetah code to import Python modules via the "#from MODULE import" substring. (Only lines beginning with #import are blocked.)

Affected products

• Cobbler Project Cobbler: before 3.3.1 (fixed in 3.3.1)
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 34 only; version 35 only; version 36 only
• Opensuse Backports: version sle-15 only
• Opensuse Factory: affected versions not specified
• Suse Linux Enterprise Server: version 11 only; version 12 only; version 15 only

Published 2022-02-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.