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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2018-16886

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The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. 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. (CVE-2018-16886) Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor. File data…Read More

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