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CVE-2018-16878

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-16878 is a denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability in Pacemaker versions up to and including 2.0.1, affecting various Linux distributions such as Canonical, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, and Red Hat. The flaw stems from insufficient verification of uncontrolled processes, allowing a local attacker with low privileges to disrupt system availability. While rated as MEDIUM severity (CVSS 5.5), there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:clusterlabs:pacemaker:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
16.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
18.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
18.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
19.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:19.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.2MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.5
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.44%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
35.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0044 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 15,938 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (6)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: pacemaker-0:1.1.19-8.el7_6.5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: pacemaker-0:2.0.1-4.el8_0.3
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: pacemaker
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Storage 3Fixed in: pacemaker

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2018-16878Moderate

pacemaker: Insufficient verification inflicted preference of uncontrolled processes can lead to DoS

Apr 17, 2019

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00012.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00034.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2019:1278
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2019:1279
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / ClusterLabs/pacemaker/pull/1749
PatchThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2021/01/msg00007.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3GCWFO7GL6MBU6C4BGFO3P6L77DIBBF3
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FY4M4RMIG2POKC6OOFQODGKPRYXHET2F
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HR6QUYGML735EI3HEEHYRDW7EG73BUH2
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202309-09
usn.ubuntu.com / 3952-1
Third Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/108039
Broken Link