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glusterfs — security advisory
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.
- Products
- glusterfs
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 4.0.2-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-1088
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 01:30 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1088
glusterfs
Fixed versions: 4.0.2-1
glusterfs
Fixed versions: 4.0.2-1
glusterfs
Fixed versions: 4.0.2-1
Complete source record
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