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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2018-10841

glusterfs is vulnerable to privilege escalation on gluster server nodes. An authenticated gluster client via TLS could use gluster cli with --remote-host command to add it self to trusted storage pool and perform privileged gluster operations like adding other machines to trusted storage pool, start, stop, and delete volumes.

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CVE-2018-10841

core-osv · Original source

Published 20 Jun 2018, 18:29 UTC

glusterfs is vulnerable to privilege escalation on gluster server nodes. An authenticated gluster client via TLS could use gluster cli with --remote-host command to add it self to trusted storage pool and perform privileged gluster operations like adding other machines to trusted storage pool, start, stop, and delete volumes.

osv:CVE-2018-10841
Complete source record
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      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1954",
        "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1955",
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00000.html",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
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  "published_at": "2018-06-20T18:29:00.233+00:00"
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