CVE-2016-7035
pacemaker: Privilege escalation due to improper guarding of IPC communication
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.0
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Published · November 3, 2016
Updated · June 30, 2026
Description
An authorization flaw was found in Pacemaker, 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.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.0 · 8.8CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 · 7.2AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
CWE-285 · Improper Authorization