# CVE-2020-25654: An ACL bypass flaw was found in pacemaker.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2020-11-24 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a pacemaker: version range not reported

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a pacemaker, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1888191
- https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2020/q4/83
- https://lists.clusterlabs.org/pipermail/users/2020-October/027840.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/01/msg00007.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-09

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