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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2021-44225: Security patch for keepalived (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Nov 26, 2021
Added
Jul 27, 2023
Modified
May 20, 2026

Description

In Keepalived through 2.2.4, the D-Bus policy does not sufficiently restrict the message destination, allowing any user to inspect and manipulate any property. This leads to access-control bypass in some situations in which an unrelated D-Bus system service has a settable (writable) property

Solutions

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