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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
Apr 18, 2018
Added
Mar 22, 2023
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

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.

Solutions

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-glusterfs-clientubuntu-pro-upgrade-glusterfs-commonubuntu-pro-upgrade-glusterfs-server
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