Critical severity · published Apr 27, 2020
CVE-2019-18823
HTCondor up to and including stable series 8.8.6 and development series 8.9.4 has Incorrect Access Control
9.8
CVSS
2.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
HTCondor up to and including stable series 8.8.6 and development series 8.9.4 has Incorrect Access Control. It is possible to use a different authentication method to submit a job than the administrator has specified. If the administrator has configured the READ or WRITE methods to include CLAIMTOBE, then it is possible to impersonate another user to the condor_schedd. (For example to submit or remove jobs)
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.8% · higher than 86% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
9.0; 10.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
30; 31; 32 · source: NVD
HT
Htcondor · Wisc
8.8.0 through 8.8.6; 8.9.0 through 8.9.4 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-18823
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-18823
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/08/msg00000.html
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3EOTJJOSMYKXIYXWSG3H4KN332EDSEB6/
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BL5YCZXYS67MLJSHR4OLSWVHBE6PZJSB/
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VMPZ7XPOPA4JGAQAUJ4K7JV653DSCIDK/
Product
https://research.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor/
Release Notes
https://research.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor/new.html
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