CVE-2018-16886 MEDIUM

CVE-2018-16886

Vendor The Etcd Project
Product etcd:
Weakness CWE-287 · Improper authentication
Published January 14, 2019
Last update August 5, 2024

CVSS base score

6.8/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity High
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Confidentiality High
Integrity High

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

etcd versions 3.2.x before 3.2.26 and 3.3.x before 3.3.11 are vulnerable to an improper authentication issue when role-based access control (RBAC) is used and client-cert-auth is enabled. If an etcd client server TLS certificate contains a Common Name (CN) which matches a valid RBAC username, a remote attacker may authenticate as that user with any valid (trusted) client certificate in a REST API request to the gRPC-gateway.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

January 14, 2019 CVE published
August 5, 2024 Record updated