CVE-2016-7797

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-03-24 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-254

Description

Pacemaker before 1.1.15, when using pacemaker remote, might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (node disconnection) via an unauthenticated connection.

Affected products

ClusterLabs pacemaker: through 1.1.14
openSUSE Leap: 42.2
Opensuse Project Leap: 42.1
RedHat Enterprise Linux High Availability: 7.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage: 7.0
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability: 12-sp2
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit: 12-sp2

References

http://bugs.clusterlabs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5269
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-11/msg00038.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-12/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00077.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2578.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/01/1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93261
https://github.com/ClusterLabs/pacemaker/commit/5ec24a2642bd0854b884d1a9b51d12371373b410
http://bugs.clusterlabs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5269
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-11/msg00038.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-12/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00077.html

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