CVE-2015-5190

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2015-09-01
CWE:
CWE-77
Bugzilla:
1252813: CVE-2015-5190 pcs: Command injection with root privileges.
A command injection flaw was found in the pcsd web UI. An attacker able to trick a victim that was logged in to the pcsd web UI into visiting a specially crafted URL could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with root privileges on the server hosting the web UI.

Find out more about CVE-2015-5190 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 9.3
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact Complete
Availability Impact Complete

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (pcs) RHSA-2015:1700 2015-09-01
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (pcs) RHSA-2015:1700 2015-09-01

Acknowledgements

This issue was discovered by Tomáš Jelínek of Red Hat.

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