CVE-2020-25654
Description
An ACL bypass flaw was found in Pacemaker. This flaw allows an attacker with a local account on the cluster and in the haclient group to use IPC communication with various daemons to directly perform certain tasks that would be prevented if they had gone through configured ACLs. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.
Statement
Red Hat Gluster Storage 3 no longer maintains its own version of Pacemaker. The prerequisite is to enable Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability (for RHEL X Server)" repository. The fix will be consumed from RHEL High Availability repository.
Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Score Details
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CVSS v3 Score Breakdown
| Red Hat | NVD | cve.org | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base Score | 7.2 | 7.2 | N/A |
| Attack Vector | Network | Network | N/A |
| Attack Complexity | Low | Low | N/A |
| Privileges Required | High | High | N/A |
| User Interaction | None | None | N/A |
| Scope | Unchanged | Unchanged | N/A |
| Confidentiality | High | High | N/A |
| Integrity Impact | High | High | N/A |
| Availability Impact | High | High | N/A |
Vector
Red Hat: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Understanding the Weakness (CWE)
Other
Technical Impact: Varies by Context
Acknowledgements
This issue was discovered by Ken Gaillot (Red Hat).
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