Red Hat Security Advisory: booth security update
The Booth cluster ticket manager is a component to bridge high availability clusters spanning multiple sites, in particular, to provide decision inputs to local Pacemaker cluster resource managers. It operates as a distributed consensus-based service, presumably on a separate physical network. Tickets facilitated by a Booth formation are the units of authorization that can be bound to certain resources. This will ensure that the resources are run at only one (granted) site at a time. Security Fix(es): * booth: specially crafted hash can lead to invalid HMAC being accepted by Booth server (CVE-2024-3049) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
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Technical Summary
CVE-2024-3049 affects the Booth cluster ticket manager, a distributed consensus-based service used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 to manage authorization tickets for high availability clusters spanning multiple sites. The vulnerability allows a specially crafted hash to cause the Booth server to accept an invalid HMAC, potentially compromising the authorization process that ensures resources run at only one site at a time. Red Hat has issued an important security advisory (RHSA-2024:4411) providing updated packages to fix this issue. The affected products include various architectures of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 High Availability and Resilient Storage variants. No CVSS score is provided, but the severity is rated as high by Red Hat.
Potential Impact
The vulnerability allows acceptance of invalid HMACs by the Booth server, which could compromise the authorization mechanism that controls resource allocation in multi-site high availability clusters. This may lead to unauthorized resource control or disruption in cluster operations. The impact is significant given Booth's role in ensuring resources run at only one granted site at a time, potentially affecting cluster stability and security.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released updated Booth packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 to address this vulnerability. Users should apply the security update RHSA-2024:4411 promptly after ensuring all previous errata relevant to their system are applied. Detailed update instructions are available from Red Hat's official documentation. No alternative mitigations or workarounds are specified in the advisory.
Red Hat Security Advisory: booth security update
Description
The Booth cluster ticket manager is a component to bridge high availability clusters spanning multiple sites, in particular, to provide decision inputs to local Pacemaker cluster resource managers. It operates as a distributed consensus-based service, presumably on a separate physical network. Tickets facilitated by a Booth formation are the units of authorization that can be bound to certain resources. This will ensure that the resources are run at only one (granted) site at a time. Security Fix(es): * booth: specially crafted hash can lead to invalid HMAC being accepted by Booth server (CVE-2024-3049) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
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Technical Analysis
CVE-2024-3049 affects the Booth cluster ticket manager, a distributed consensus-based service used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 to manage authorization tickets for high availability clusters spanning multiple sites. The vulnerability allows a specially crafted hash to cause the Booth server to accept an invalid HMAC, potentially compromising the authorization process that ensures resources run at only one site at a time. Red Hat has issued an important security advisory (RHSA-2024:4411) providing updated packages to fix this issue. The affected products include various architectures of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 High Availability and Resilient Storage variants. No CVSS score is provided, but the severity is rated as high by Red Hat.
Potential Impact
The vulnerability allows acceptance of invalid HMACs by the Booth server, which could compromise the authorization mechanism that controls resource allocation in multi-site high availability clusters. This may lead to unauthorized resource control or disruption in cluster operations. The impact is significant given Booth's role in ensuring resources run at only one granted site at a time, potentially affecting cluster stability and security.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released updated Booth packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 to address this vulnerability. Users should apply the security update RHSA-2024:4411 promptly after ensuring all previous errata relevant to their system are applied. Detailed update instructions are available from Red Hat's official documentation. No alternative mitigations or workarounds are specified in the advisory.
Technical Details
- Gcve Source
- db.gcve.eu
- Csaf Category
- csaf_security_advisory
- Csaf Version
- 2.0
- Publisher
- Red Hat Product Security
- Advisory Id
- RHSA-2024:4411
- Cve Count
- 1
Threat ID: 6a3da1f34853345fc18338a7
Added to database: 06/25/2026, 21:47:31 UTC
Last enriched: 06/25/2026, 22:47:40 UTC
Last updated: 09/10/2026, 19:36:48 UTC
Views: 9
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