# CVE-2018-10841: glusterfs is vulnerable to privilege escalation on gluster server nodes.

- Severity: CVSS 6.6 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2018-06-20 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- Red Hat glusterfs: all versions

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Red Hat glusterfs, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10841
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1955
- https://review.gluster.org/#/c/20328/
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1954
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-06
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00000.html

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