| Name | CVE-2018-1088 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-2806-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 896128 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| glusterfs (PTS) | buster | 5.5-3 | fixed |
| bullseye | 9.2-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 10.3-5 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 11.1-4 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[jessie] - glusterfs <not-affected> (vulnerable code not present)
[wheezy] - glusterfs <not-affected> (vulnerable code not present)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1558721
https://review.gluster.org/#/c/19899/
https://review.gluster.org/#/c/19898/
When fixing the issue it's important to not apply the incomplete fix and open
CVE-2018-1112 causing that auth.allow allows all clients to mount volumes.
Cf. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1570891
Needs: https://review.gluster.org/#/c/19899/1..2