CVE-2016-7035

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2016-11-03
CWE:
CWE-285
Bugzilla:
1369732: CVE-2016-7035 pacemaker: Privilege escalation due to improper guarding of IPC communication
An authorization flaw was found in Pacemaker, where it did not properly guard its IPC interface. An attacker with an unprivileged account on a Pacemaker node could use this flaw to, for example, force the Local Resource Manager daemon to execute a script as root and thereby gain root access on the machine.

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CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 7.2
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact Complete
Availability Impact Complete

CVSS v3 metrics

CVSS3 Base Score 8.8
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction None
Scope Changed
Confidentiality High
Integrity Impact High
Availability Impact High

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (pacemaker) RHSA-2016:2614 2016-11-03
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (pacemaker) RHSA-2016:2675 2016-11-08

Acknowledgements

This issue was discovered by Jan "poki" Pokorny (Red Hat) and Alain Moulle (ATOS/BULL).

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