CVE-2018-10904 Path traversal in glusterfs

What is CVE-2018-10904?

CVE-2018-10904 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 4 Sep 2018. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-426

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-10904?

It affects 5 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Gluster Glusterfs, Opensuse Leap, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server, Redhat Virtualization Host.

How do I fix CVE-2018-10904?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2018-10904 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-10904 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2018-10904, GHSA-v93g-8xmc-xvqm, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-10904.