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CVE-2018-1088 — A privilege escalation flaw was found in gluster 3

A privilege escalation flaw was found in gluster 3.x snapshot scheduler. Any gluster client allowed to mount gluster volumes could also mount shared gluster storage volume and escalate privileges by scheduling malicious cronjob via symlink.

CVSS
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EPSS
10.78% (top 6.70%)
CWE
CWE-266
Published
2018-04-18T16:00:00.000Z
Last modified
2024-08-05T03:51:48.797Z
CVSS vector
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01What is this vulnerability?

A privilege escalation flaw was found in gluster 3.x snapshot scheduler. Any gluster client allowed to mount gluster volumes could also mount shared gluster storage volume and escalate privileges by scheduling malicious cronjob via symlink.

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
Red Hat, Inc.glusterfs3.x

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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