CVE-2018-10841 Privilege escalation in glusterfs
Medium 6.6
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2018-10841 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2018-10841 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 20 Jun 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-10841 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: Debian Debian Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.
Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-10841/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-10841/index.md)
An authenticated Gluster client can escalate privileges to perform administrative storage operations like adding nodes or deleting volumes.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2018-10841?
CVE-2018-10841 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 20 Jun 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
glusterfs is vulnerable to privilege escalation on gluster server nodes. An authenticated gluster client via TLS could use gluster cli with --remote-host command to add it self to trusted storage pool and perform privileged gluster operations like adding other machines to trusted storage pool, start, stop, and delete volumes.
Weakness: CWE-288
Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-10841?
It affects 2 products.
Linux distribution packages (40)
glusterfs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::hypervisor | All versions | 0:3.8.4-54.10.el7 |
glusterfs-api Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::hypervisor | All versions | 0:3.8.4-54.10.el7 |
glusterfs-api-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::hypervisor | All versions | 0:3.8.4-54.10.el7 |
glusterfs-cli Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::hypervisor | All versions | 0:3.8.4-54.10.el7 |
glusterfs-client-xlators Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::hypervisor | All versions | 0:3.8.4-54.10.el7 |
glusterfs-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::hypervisor | All versions | 0:3.8.4-54.10.el7 |
glusterfs-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::hypervisor | All versions | 0:3.8.4-54.10.el7 |
glusterfs-fuse Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::hypervisor | All versions | 0:3.8.4-54.10.el7 |
glusterfs-libs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::hypervisor | All versions | 0:3.8.4-54.10.el7 |
glusterfs-rdma Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::hypervisor | All versions | 0:3.8.4-54.10.el7 |
python-gluster Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::hypervisor | All versions | 0:3.8.4-54.10.el7 |
glusterfs Red Hat:storage:3.3:server:el6 | All versions | 0:3.8.4-54.11.el6rhs |
glusterfs-api Red Hat:storage:3.3:server:el6 | All versions | 0:3.8.4-54.11.el6rhs |
glusterfs-api-devel Red Hat:storage:3.3:server:el6 | All versions | 0:3.8.4-54.11.el6rhs |
glusterfs-cli Red Hat:storage:3.3:server:el6 | All versions | 0:3.8.4-54.11.el6rhs |
glusterfs-client-xlators Red Hat:storage:3.3:server:el6 | All versions | 0:3.8.4-54.11.el6rhs |
glusterfs-debuginfo Red Hat:storage:3.3:server:el6 | All versions | 0:3.8.4-54.11.el6rhs |
glusterfs-devel Red Hat:storage:3.3:server:el6 | All versions | 0:3.8.4-54.11.el6rhs |
glusterfs-events Red Hat:storage:3.3:server:el6 | All versions | 0:3.8.4-54.11.el6rhs |
glusterfs-fuse Red Hat:storage:3.3:server:el6 | All versions | 0:3.8.4-54.11.el6rhs |
glusterfs-ganesha Red Hat:storage:3.3:server:el6 | All versions | 0:3.8.4-54.11.el6rhs |
glusterfs-geo-replication Red Hat:storage:3.3:server:el6 | All versions | 0:3.8.4-54.11.el6rhs |
glusterfs-libs Red Hat:storage:3.3:server:el6 | All versions | 0:3.8.4-54.11.el6rhs |
glusterfs-rdma Red Hat:storage:3.3:server:el6 | All versions | 0:3.8.4-54.11.el6rhs |
glusterfs-server Red Hat:storage:3.3:server:el6 | All versions | 0:3.8.4-54.11.el6rhs |
python-gluster Red Hat:storage:3.3:server:el6 | All versions | 0:3.8.4-54.11.el6rhs |
glusterfs Red Hat:storage:3.3:server:el7 | All versions | 0:3.8.4-54.10.el7rhgs |
glusterfs-api Red Hat:storage:3.3:server:el7 | All versions | 0:3.8.4-54.10.el7rhgs |
glusterfs-api-devel Red Hat:storage:3.3:server:el7 | All versions | 0:3.8.4-54.10.el7rhgs |
glusterfs-cli Red Hat:storage:3.3:server:el7 | All versions | 0:3.8.4-54.10.el7rhgs |
glusterfs-client-xlators Red Hat:storage:3.3:server:el7 | All versions | 0:3.8.4-54.10.el7rhgs |
glusterfs-debuginfo Red Hat:storage:3.3:server:el7 | All versions | 0:3.8.4-54.10.el7rhgs |
glusterfs-devel Red Hat:storage:3.3:server:el7 | All versions | 0:3.8.4-54.10.el7rhgs |
glusterfs-events Red Hat:storage:3.3:server:el7 | All versions | 0:3.8.4-54.10.el7rhgs |
glusterfs-fuse Red Hat:storage:3.3:server:el7 | All versions | 0:3.8.4-54.10.el7rhgs |
glusterfs-ganesha Red Hat:storage:3.3:server:el7 | All versions | 0:3.8.4-54.10.el7rhgs |
glusterfs-geo-replication Red Hat:storage:3.3:server:el7 | All versions | 0:3.8.4-54.10.el7rhgs |
glusterfs-libs Red Hat:storage:3.3:server:el7 | All versions | 0:3.8.4-54.10.el7rhgs |
glusterfs-rdma Red Hat:storage:3.3:server:el7 | All versions | 0:3.8.4-54.10.el7rhgs |
glusterfs-resource-agents Red Hat:storage:3.3:server:el7 | All versions | 0:3.8.4-54.10.el7rhgs |
Products include Debian Debian Linux, Gluster Glusterfs.
How do I fix CVE-2018-10841?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Is CVE-2018-10841 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-10841 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Debian Debian Linux
Sources
Also known as CLSA-2026-1777566732, DEBIAN-CVE-2018-10841, GHSA-383h-f6wm-hpxc, RHSA-2018:1954, RHSA-2018:1955, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-10841.