CVE-2016-7035: Clusterlabs Pacemaker

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An authorization flaw was found in Pacemaker before 1.1.16, where it did not properly guard its IPC interface. An attacker with an unprivileged account on a Pacemaker node could use this flaw to, for example, force the Local Resource Manager daemon to execute a script as root and thereby gain root access on the machine.

Affected products

• Clusterlabs Pacemaker: up to and including 1.1.16
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: version 7.3 only; version 7.4 only; version 7.5 only; version 7.6 only

Published 2018-09-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.