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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-25654

An ACL bypass flaw was found in pacemaker. An attacker having a local account on the cluster and in the haclient group could use IPC communication with various daemons directly to perform certain tasks that they would be prevented by ACLs from doing if they went through the configuration.

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1 Nov 2026, 07:17 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2020-25654

core-osv · Original source

Published 24 Nov 2020, 20:15 UTC

An ACL bypass flaw was found in pacemaker. An attacker having a local account on the cluster and in the haclient group could use IPC communication with various daemons directly to perform certain tasks that they would be prevented by ACLs from doing if they went through the configuration.

osv:CVE-2020-25654
Complete source record
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      "references": [
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        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/01/msg00007.html",
        "https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2020/q4/83",
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-09",
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