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CVE-2018-1079
- Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2018-04-12 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-552
Description
pcs before version 0.9.164 and 0.10 is vulnerable to a privilege escalation via authorized user malicious REST call. The REST interface of the pcsd service did not properly sanitize the file name from the /remote/put_file query. If the /etc/booth directory exists, an authenticated attacker with write permissions could create or overwrite arbitrary files with arbitrary data outside of the /etc/booth directory, in the context of the pcsd process.
Affected products
- ClusterLabs Pacemaker Command Line Interface: through 0.9.164; 0.10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 7.0, 7.5
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1060
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1079
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1060
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1079
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