CVE-2018-14659

MEDIUM

Gluster File System < 3.1.2 - Authenticated Denial of Service via GF_XATTR_IOSTATS_DUMP_KEY Attribute

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The Gluster file system through versions 4.1.4 and 3.1.2 is vulnerable to a denial of service attack via use of the 'GF_XATTR_IOSTATS_DUMP_KEY' xattr. A remote, authenticated attacker could exploit this by mounting a Gluster volume and repeatedly calling 'setxattr(2)' to trigger a state dump and create an arbitrary number of files in the server's runtime directory.

References (7)

Core 7
Core References
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3431
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00003.html
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
Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-14659
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 0.0214
EPSS Percentile 84.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-400
Status published
Products (7)
debian/debian_linux 8.0
debian/debian_linux 9.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_server 6.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_server 7.0
redhat/gluster_file_system 3.0.0 - 3.1.2
redhat/virtualization 4.0
redhat/virtualization_host 4.0
Published Oct 31, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026