CVE-2018-17954 describes an Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in the crowbar component of SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7, 8, and 9, as well as SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 and 9. A root user on any crowbar-managed node can leverage this flaw to gain root privileges on other nodes within the environment. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires local privileges, but can lead to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:suse:openstack_cloud:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:suse:openstack_cloud:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:suse:openstack_cloud:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:suse:openstack_cloud_crowbar:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:suse:openstack_cloud_crowbar:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
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