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glusterfs — security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1088

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

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1088

core-osv · Original source

Published 18 Apr 2018, 16:29 UTC

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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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 423696,
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