CVE-2018-14651 Path traversal in glusterfs

What is CVE-2018-14651?

CVE-2018-14651 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 31 Oct 2018. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-59

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-14651?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Gluster Glusterfs, Redhat Enterprise Linux.

How do I fix CVE-2018-14651?

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-2018-14651 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-14651 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-2018-14651, GHSA-p7qq-cq4p-g2h3, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-14651.