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CVE-2018-10904

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-09-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-426

Description

It was found that glusterfs server does not properly sanitize file paths in the "trusted.io-stats-dump" extended attribute which is used by the "debug/io-stats" translator. Attacker can use this flaw to create files and execute arbitrary code. To exploit this attacker would require sufficient access to modify the extended attributes of files on a gluster volume.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• Red Hat glusterfs: from 3.12.0 before 3.12.14; from 4.1.0 before 4.1.8 — fixed in 3.12.14, 4.1.8
• openSUSE Leap: 15.1
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 6.0, 7.0
• RedHat Virtualization Host: 4.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Red Hat glusterfs 3.12.14, 4.1.8. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00035.html
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2607
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2608
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3470
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10904
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00021.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00000.html
• https://review.gluster.org/#/c/glusterfs/+/21072/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-06
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00035.html
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2607
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2608

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