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CVE-2018-10841 — glusterfs is vulnerable to privilege escalation on gluster server nodes

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

CVSS
6.6 MEDIUM
EPSS
0.68% (top 28.60%)
CWE
CWE-288
Published
2018-06-20T18:00:00.000Z
Last modified
2024-08-05T07:46:47.063Z
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

01What is this vulnerability?

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.

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
Red Hatglusterfsall

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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