High
Security advisory
It was found that the "mknod" call derived from mknod(2) can create files pointing to devices on a glusterfs server node. An authenticated attacker could use this to create an arbitrary device and read data from any device attached to the glusterfs server node.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-10923
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:32 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
It was found that the "mknod" call derived from mknod(2) can create files pointing to devices on a glusterfs server node. An authenticated attacker could use this to create an arbitrary device and read data from any device attached to the glusterfs server node.
osv:CVE-2018-10923
Complete source record
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