Medium
Security advisory
The Gluster file system through versions 4.1.4 and 3.1.2 is vulnerable to a denial of service attack via use of the 'GF_XATTR_IOSTATS_DUMP_KEY' xattr. A remote, authenticated attacker could exploit this by mounting a Gluster volume and repeatedly calling 'setxattr(2)' to trigger a state dump and create an arbitrary number of files in the server's runtime directory.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-14659
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:00 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The Gluster file system through versions 4.1.4 and 3.1.2 is vulnerable to a denial of service attack via use of the 'GF_XATTR_IOSTATS_DUMP_KEY' xattr. A remote, authenticated attacker could exploit this by mounting a Gluster volume and repeatedly calling 'setxattr(2)' to trigger a state dump and create an arbitrary number of files in the server's runtime directory.
osv:CVE-2018-14659
Complete source record
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