CVE-2018-14651

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-14651  

It was found that the fix for CVE-2018-10927, CVE-2018-10928, CVE-2018-10929, CVE-2018-10930, and CVE-2018-10926 was incomplete. A remote, authenticated attacker could use one of these flaws to execute arbitrary code, create arbitrary files, or cause denial of service on glusterfs server nodes via symlinks to relative paths.

It was found that the fix for CVE-2018-10927, CVE-2018-10928, CVE-2018-10929, CVE-2018-10930, and CVE-2018-10926 was incomplete. A remote, authenticated attacker could use one of these flaws to execute arbitrary code, create arbitrary files, or cause denial of service on glusterfs server nodes via symlinks to relative paths.

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Statement

This issue did not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7 as the flaw is present in glusterfs-server, which is not shipped there.

CVSS v3 metrics

CVSS3 Base Score 8.8
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity Impact High
Availability Impact High

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Virtualization 4 Management Agent for RHEL 7 Hosts RHSA-2018:3432 2018-10-31
Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4 for RHEL 7 (glusterfs) RHSA-2018:3432 2018-10-31
Red Hat Storage Native Client for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (glusterfs) RHSA-2018:3432 2018-10-31
Red Hat Storage Native Client for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (glusterfs) RHSA-2018:3431 2018-10-31
Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4 for RHEL 6 (glusterfs) RHSA-2018:3431 2018-10-31

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 glusterfs Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 glusterfs Not affected

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Michael Hanselmann (hansmi.ch) for reporting this issue.