CVE-2010-2496

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2021-10-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-287

Description

stonith-ng in pacemaker and cluster-glue passed passwords as commandline parameters, making it possible for local attackers to gain access to passwords of the HA stack and potentially influence its operations. This is fixed in cluster-glue 1.0.6 and newer, and pacemaker 1.1.3 and newer.

Affected products

ClusterLabs Cluster Glue: before 1.0.6 — fixed in 1.0.6
ClusterLabs pacemaker: before 1.1.3 — fixed in 1.1.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: ClusterLabs Cluster Glue 1.0.6; ClusterLabs pacemaker 1.1.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2010-2496
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2010-2496

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