A privilege escalation flaw was found in gluster 3.x snapshot scheduler. Any gluster client allowed to mount gluster volumes could also…

Description

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

5.5% · top 7.2% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.1.

Weakness

• CWE-266 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-266 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Red Hat, Inc. · glusterfs

  • affected 3.x

References (8)

• RHSA-2018:1137 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2018:1275 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2018:1524 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1558721 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• RHSA-2018:1136 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• GLSA-201904-06 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• openSUSE-SU-2020:0079 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• [debian-lts-announce] 20211101 [SECURITY] [DLA 2806-1] glusterfs security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 5 Aug 2024, 03:51 UTC.