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Oracle Linux: CVE-2020-25654: ELSA-2020-5453: pacemaker security update (MODERATE) (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Oct 27, 2020
Added
Dec 23, 2020
Modified
Dec 3, 2025

Description

An ACL bypass flaw was found in pacemaker. An attacker having a local account on the cluster and in the haclient group could use IPC communication with various daemons directly to perform certain tasks that they would be prevented by ACLs from doing if they went through the configuration.
An ACL bypass flaw was found in Pacemaker. This flaw allows an attacker with a local account on the cluster and in the haclient group to use IPC communication with various daemons to directly perform certain tasks that would be prevented if they had gone through configured ACLs. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.

Solutions

oracle-linux-upgrade-pacemakeroracle-linux-upgrade-pacemaker-clioracle-linux-upgrade-pacemaker-cluster-libsoracle-linux-upgrade-pacemaker-ctsoracle-linux-upgrade-pacemaker-docoracle-linux-upgrade-pacemaker-libsoracle-linux-upgrade-pacemaker-libs-develoracle-linux-upgrade-pacemaker-nagios-plugins-metadataoracle-linux-upgrade-pacemaker-remoteoracle-linux-upgrade-pacemaker-schemas
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