Upstream information

CVE-2018-1079 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 4
Vector AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication Single
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None
CVSS v3 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 6.5
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact High
Availability Impact None
CVSSv3 Version 3
No SUSE Bugzilla entries cross referenced.

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List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Liberty Linux 7
  • pcs >= 0.9.162-5.el7_5.1
  • pcs-snmp >= 0.9.162-5.el7_5.1
Patchnames:
RHSA-2018:1060


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Mon Apr 9 14:30:10 2018
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 30 17:39:39 2023