CVE-2016-7035

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-09-10 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-285

Description

An authorization flaw was found in Pacemaker before 1.1.16, where it did not properly guard its IPC interface. An attacker with an unprivileged account on a Pacemaker node could use this flaw to, for example, force the Local Resource Manager daemon to execute a script as root and thereby gain root access on the machine.

Affected products

ClusterLabs pacemaker: through 1.1.16
RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 6.0, 7.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2614.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2675.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/03/5
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94214
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-7035
https://github.com/ClusterLabs/pacemaker/commit/5d71e65049
https://lists.clusterlabs.org/pipermail/users/2016-November/004432.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-08
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2614.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2675.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/03/5
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94214

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