pcs — security advisory
A vulnerability was found in the PCS project. This issue occurs due to incorrect permissions on a Unix socket used for internal communication between PCS daemons. A privilege escalation could happen by obtaining an authentication token for a hacluster user. With the "hacluster" token, this flaw allows an attacker to have complete control over the cluster managed by PCS.
- Products
- pcs
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 0.11.3-2
- CVEs
- CVE-2022-2735
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 30 Oct 2026, 14:38 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A vulnerability was found in the PCS project. This issue occurs due to incorrect permissions on a Unix socket used for internal communication between PCS daemons. A privilege escalation could happen by obtaining an authentication token for a hacluster user. With the "hacluster" token, this flaw allows an attacker to have complete control over the cluster managed by PCS.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2022-2735
pcs
Fixed versions: 0.11.3-2
pcs
Fixed versions: 0.11.3-2
pcs
Fixed versions: 0.11.3-2
Complete source record
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