CVE-2018-1088

HIGH
8.1
CVSS Score
Published: April 18, 2018 at 04:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:50 AM UTC
7 products affected across 3 vendorsDebian LinuxLeapEnterprise Linux Server

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Severity
HIGH8.1
Exploit prediction
EPSS 5%

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

References (8)

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00035.html
x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1558721
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTThird Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00000.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOThird Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-06

CVSS

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
HIGH
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-266NVD-CWE-noinfo

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