Access Restriction Bypass Affecting gluster/glusterfs package, versions [,3.3.0]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GLUSTERGLUSTERFS-2364746
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed18 Nov 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 18 Nov 2012

CVE-2012-4417  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for gluster/glusterfs.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. GlusterFS 3.3.0, as used in Red Hat Storage server 2.0, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files with predictable names.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1