Improper Authentication The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package glusterfs-libs  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-GLUSTERFSLIBS-1864685
  • published1 Nov 2021
  • disclosed20 Jun 2018

Introduced: 20 Jun 2018

CVE-2018-10841  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-287  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:7.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream glusterfs-libs package and not the glusterfs-libs package as distributed by RHEL.

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.