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CVE-2018-17954 — An Improper Privilege Management in crowbar of SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7, SUSE Open

An Improper Privilege Management in crowbar of SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7, SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8, SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9, SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8, SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9 allows root users on any crowbar managed node to cause become root on any other node. This issue a

CVSS

9.3 CRITICAL

EPSS

0.04% (top 87.60%)

CWE

CWE-269

Published

2020-04-03T07:05:13.265Z

Last modified

2024-09-16T20:02:21.821Z

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

01What is this vulnerability?

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
SUSE	SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7	crowbar-core
SUSE	SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8	ardana-cinder
SUSE	SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9	ardana-ansible
SUSE	SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8	crowbar-core
SUSE	SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9	crowbar-core

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

Ask SARA in chat to draft a starting detection for this CVE in your stack of choice.

07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

Published: 2020-04-03T07:05:13.265Z
Last modified: 2024-09-16T20:02:21.821Z

09References

bugzilla.suse.com — https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1117080

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