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Ubuntu: USN-4770-1 (CVE-2018-1088): GlusterFS vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4770-1 (CVE-2018-1088): GlusterFS vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/18/2018
Created
03/29/2023
Added
03/22/2023
Modified
05/01/2023

Description

A privilege escalation flaw was found in gluster 3.x snapshot scheduler. Any gluster client allowed to mount gluster volumes could also mount shared gluster storage volume and escalate privileges by scheduling malicious cronjob via symlink.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-glusterfs-client
  • ubuntu-upgrade-glusterfs-common
  • ubuntu-upgrade-glusterfs-server

References

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