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CVE-2022-2553

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-07-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-287

Description

The authfile directive in the booth config file is ignored, preventing use of authentication in communications from node to node. As a result, nodes that do not have the correct authentication key are not prevented from communicating with other nodes in the cluster.

Affected products

• ClusterLabs Booth: through 1.0
• Debian Linux: 10.0, 11.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 35, 36

References

• https://github.com/ClusterLabs/booth/commit/35bf0b7b048d715f671eb68974fb6b4af6528c67
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J4T4TTXAABVUCMPUL7XQ2PH5EYYOOQZY/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OHDOFX7NQFH3UGZZA3SGW5SVMDDHIUVD/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5194
• https://github.com/ClusterLabs/booth/commit/35bf0b7b048d715f671eb68974fb6b4af6528c67
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J4T4TTXAABVUCMPUL7XQ2PH5EYYOOQZY/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OHDOFX7NQFH3UGZZA3SGW5SVMDDHIUVD/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5194

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