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CVE-2018-16877
A flaw was found in the way pacemaker's client-server authentication was implemented in versions up to and including 2.0.0. A local…
High8.8EPSS 0.38%
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- redhat
Description
A flaw was found in the way pacemaker's client-server authentication was implemented in versions up to and including 2.0.0. A local attacker could use this flaw, and combine it with other IPC weaknesses, to achieve local privilege escalation.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhatCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.38% · top 68% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected affects up to and including Pacemaker-2.0.0
References (13)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16877 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/ClusterLabs/pacemaker/pull/1749 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- USN-3952-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- 108042 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_transferred
- FEDORA-2019-e4c8de3fb7 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- FEDORA-2019-e71f6f36ac (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- FEDORA-2019-b502250ba4 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2019:1342 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2019:1400 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:1278 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:1279 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20210106 [SECURITY] [DLA 2519-1] pacemaker security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- GLSA-202309-09 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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