CVE-2018-14654

MEDIUM

Gluster <4.1.4 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The Gluster file system through version 4.1.4 is vulnerable to abuse of the 'features/index' translator. A remote attacker with access to mount volumes could exploit this via the 'GF_XATTROP_ENTRY_IN_KEY' xattrop to create arbitrary, empty files on the target server.

References (6)

Core 6
Core References
Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-14654
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3431
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3432
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3470
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-06
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00000.html

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0202
EPSS Percentile 84.0%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-22
Status published
Products (7)
debian/debian_linux 9.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_server 6.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_server 7.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_virtualization 4.0
redhat/gluster_storage < 4.1.4
redhat/virtualization 4.0
redhat/virtualization_host 4.0
Published Oct 31, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026