CVE-2018-10930 Path traversal in glusterfs

What is CVE-2018-10930?

CVE-2018-10930 is a medium-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

A flaw was found in RPC request using gfs3_rename_req in glusterfs server. An authenticated attacker could use this flaw to write to a destination outside the gluster volume.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-10930?

It affects 7 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Gluster Glusterfs, Opensuse Leap, Redhat Enterprise Linux, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server, Redhat Virtualization and 1 more.

How do I fix CVE-2018-10930?

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-2018-10930 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-10930 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-2018-10930, GHSA-j5jm-3qm8-4wj7, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-10930.