Impact: Important Public Date: 2019-04-17 CWE: CWE-287 Bugzilla: 1652646: CVE-2018-16877 pacemaker: Insufficient local IPC client-server authentication on the client's side can lead to local privesc A flaw was found in the way pacemaker's client-server authentication was implemented. A local attacker could use this flaw, and combine it with other IPC weaknesses, to achieve local privilege escalation.
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This is essentially a design level security flaw which can be combined with other flaws to achieve local privilege escalation for clusters running pacemaker. The attacker needs to have access to the cluster node running pacemaker (AV:L). The attacker can use easily use the design flaw via the confused deputy problem to run the exploit (AC:L), also needs to have login access to the pacemaker node to run the exploit (PR:L).
Due to the elevated privileges obtained, there is an impact to the system beyond the pacemaker node itself (S:C). Lastly due to the attacker's ability to run arbitrary code as root, confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the system is affected. (CIA:H)
NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
| 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 |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Gluster Storage 3 | pacemaker | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | pacemaker | Affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | pacemaker | Will not fix |
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