CVE-2018-10841
glusterfs is vulnerable to privilege escalation on gluster server nodes.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.23%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.23% probability · 69th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-288
- Affected
- gluster/glusterfs · debian/debian linux
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
EPSS 1.2% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1954Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1955Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10841Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00000.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://review.gluster.org/#/c/20328/Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-06Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1954Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1955Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10841Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00000.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://review.gluster.org/#/c/20328/Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-06Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.