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Status published
Medium
CVE-2018-10841
glusterfs is vulnerable to privilege escalation on gluster server nodes....
Vulnerability Description
glusterfs is vulnerable to privilege escalation on gluster server nodes. An authenticated gluster client via TLS could use gluster cli with --remote-host command to add it self to trusted storage pool and perform privileged gluster operations like adding other machines to trusted storage pool, start, stop, and delete volumes.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10841
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1955
- https://review.gluster.org/#/c/20328/
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1954
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-06
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00000.html
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Affected Vendor
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View all reports →Affected Software
glusterfs
Vulnerable Versions:
all
Timeline
Official Publish:
June 20th, 2018
Last Modified:
August 5th, 2024
Added to House:
July 20th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
V3:
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H