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CVE-2021-3020: clusterlabs hawk Improper Privilege Management

CVSS: 8.8v3.1HighModified
AliasesMGASA-2023-0073
Published 25-08-2022Last modified 03-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2021-3020 is a high (CVSS 8.8) Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in clusterlabs hawk. EPSS estimates a 1.23% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 68.3% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
35/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
8.8/10
010
High · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
1.23%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 6 · Related 6
OPENSUSE-SU-2021:0410-1SUSE-SU-2021:0722-1SUSE-SU-2021:0771-1SUSE-SU-2021:0781-1SUSE-SU-2021:0782-1SUSE-SU-2021:0806-1

Timeline

  1. 25-08-2022
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 03-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

An issue was discovered in ClusterLabs Hawk (aka HA Web Konsole) through 2.3.0-15. It ships the binary hawk_invoke (built from tools/hawk_invoke.c), intended to be used as a setuid program. This allows the hacluster user to invoke certain commands as root (with an attempt to limit this to safe combinations). This user is able to execute an interactive "shell" that isn't limited to the commands specified in hawk_invoke, allowing escalation to root.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

1.23%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

68%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 1.23% on 18-09-2026

18-09-202618-10-2026
EPSS score
1.23%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Clusterlabs1 product
Mageia1 product
  • crmsh< 4.4.0-1.mga8

2 vendors · 2 products

References

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