# CVE-2018-1088: A privilege escalation flaw was found in gluster 3.x snapshot scheduler.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Published: 2018-04-18 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- Red Hat, Inc. glusterfs: 3.x

## 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.

## What to do

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## References

- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1137
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1275
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1524
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1558721
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1136
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-06
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00035.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00000.html
- https://github.com/MauroEldritch/GEVAUDAN

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