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Ubuntu: USN-5188-1 (CVE-2021-44225): Keepalived vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-5188-1 (CVE-2021-44225): Keepalived vulnerability

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
11/26/2021
Created
12/28/2021
Added
12/15/2021
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

In Keepalived through 2.2.4, the D-Bus policy does not sufficiently restrict the message destination, allowing any user to inspect and manipulate any property. This leads to access-control bypass in some situations in which an unrelated D-Bus system service has a settable (writable) property

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-keepalived

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