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CVE-2015-5189 (GCVE-0-2015-5189)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-09-03 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 06:41
VLAI
Summary
Race condition in pcsd in PCS 0.9.139 and earlier uses a global variable to validate usernames, which allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges by sending a command that is checked for security after another user is authenticated.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1252805 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1700.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Date Public
2015-09-01 00:00
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