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Severity
7.5
Use After Free
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

In Gluster GlusterFS 11.0, there is an xlators/cluster/dht/src/dht-common.c dhtsetxattrmdscbk use-after-free.

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Source: Ubuntu
First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

In Gluster GlusterFS 11.0, there is an xlators/mount/fuse/src/fuse-bridge.c notify stack-based buffer over-read.

First published (updated )
Severity
4

A vulnerability was found in Gluster's features/locks translator An user-controlled string is given to snprintf without a proper format string. Sending a specially crafted string would result in a denial of service.

First published (updated )
Severity
6.5
Input Validation
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

A vulnerability was found in Gluster's features/locks translator An user-controlled string is given to snprintf without a proper format string. Sending a specially crafted string would result in a denial of service.

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Source: Red Hat
First published (updated )
Severity
4

The Gluster file system through versions 4.1.4 and 3.1.2 is vulnerable to a denial of service attack via use of the "GFXATTRIOSTATSDUMPKEY" xattr. A remote, authenticated attacker could exploit this by mounting a Gluster volume and repeatedly calling "setxattr(2)" to trigger a state dump and create an arbitrary number of files in the server's runtime directory.

First published (updated )
Severity
4

The Gluster file system through versions 4.1.4 and 3.1.2 is vulnerable to a denial of service attack via use of the "GFMETALOCKKEY" xattr. A remote, authenticated attacker could exploit this by mounting a Gluster volume and repeatedly calling "setxattr(2)" to trigger an out-of-memory error and resultant denial of service.

First published (updated )
Severity
6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

A flaw was found in glusterfs server through versions 4.1.4 and 3.1.2 which allowed repeated usage of GFMETALOCKKEY xattr. A remote, authenticated attacker could use this flaw to create multiple locks for single inode by using setxattr repetitively resulting in memory exhaustion of glusterfs server node.

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Source: MITRE
First published (updated )
Severity
4
Buffer Overflow

The Gluster file system through versions 4.1.4 and 3.12 is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow in the "servergetspec" function via the "gfgetspecreq" RPC message. A remote authenticated attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service or other potential unspecified impact.

Patching this issue also requires fixing the "buildvolfilepath" function to prevent arbitrary file reads via crafted filenames.

First published (updated )
Severity
4
Buffer Overflow

The Gluster file system through versions 3.12 and 4.1.4 is vulnerable to a buffer overflow in the "features/index" translator via the code handling the "GFXATTRCLRLKCMD" xattr in the "plgetxattr" function. A remote authenticated attacker could exploit this on a mounted volume to cause a denial of service.

First published (updated )
Severity
8.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Gluster versions 3.12.14 and 4.1.4 included incomplete fixes for the vulnerabilities, CVE-2018-10927, CVE-2018-10928, CVE-2018-10929, CVE-2018-10930 and CVE-2018-10926. All five vulnerabilities remain exploitable via symlinks pointing to relative paths. A remote authenticated attacker could exploit one of these vulnerabilities to force a server to resolve target paths and achieve a maximum impact of arbitrary code execution.

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Source: Red Hat
First published (updated )
Severity
4

The Gluster file system through version 4.1.4 is vulnerable to abuse of the "features/index" translator. A remote attacker with access to mount volumes could exploit this via the "GFXATTROPENTRYINKEY" xattrop to create arbitrary, empty files on the target server.

First published (updated )
Severity
6.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

It was discovered that fsync(2) system call in glusterfs client code leaks memory. An authenticated attacker could use this flaw to launch a denial of service attack by making gluster clients consume memory of the host machine.

First published (updated )
Severity
8.8
Input Validation, Path Traversal
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

A flaw was found in RPC request using gfs3mknodreq supported by glusterfs server. An authenticated attacker could use this flaw to write files to an arbitrary location via path traversal and execute arbitrary code on a glusterfs server node.

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Source: MITRE
First published (updated )
Severity
6.5
Input Validation
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

A flaw was found in RPC request using gfs3renamereq in glusterfs server. An authenticated attacker could use this flaw to write to a destination outside the gluster volume.

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Remedy

To limit exposure of gluster server nodes : 1. gluster server should be on LAN and not reachable from public networks. 2. Use gluster auth.allow and auth.reject. 3. Use TLS certificates to authenticate gluster clients. caveat: This does not protect from attacks by authenticated gluster clients.
First published (updated )
Severity
8.8
Input Validation
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

A flaw was found in RPC request using gfs2createreq in glusterfs server. An authenticated attacker could use this flaw to create arbitrary files and execute arbitrary code on glusterfs server nodes.

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Source: MITRE
First published (updated )
Severity
8.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

A flaw was found in RPC request using gfs3symlinkreq in glusterfs server which allows symlink destinations to point to file paths outside of the gluster volume. An authenticated attacker could use this flaw to create arbitrary symlinks pointing anywhere on the server and execute arbitrary code on glusterfs server nodes.

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Remedy

To limit exposure of gluster server nodes : 1. gluster server should be on LAN and not reachable from public networks. 2. Use gluster auth.allow and auth.reject. 3. Use TLS certificates to authenticate gluster clients. caveat: This does not protect from attacks by authenticated gluster clients.
First published (updated )
Severity
8.1
Input Validation, Infoleak
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

A flaw was found in RPC request using gfs3lookupreq in glusterfs server. An authenticated attacker could use this flaw to leak information and execute remote denial of service by crashing gluster brick process.

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Source: MITRE
First published (updated )
Severity
8.1
Input Validation
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

It was found that the "mknod" call derived from mknod(2) can create files pointing to devices on a glusterfs server node. An authenticated attacker could use this to create an arbitrary device and read data from any device attached to the glusterfs server node.

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Source: MITRE
First published (updated )
Severity
6.5
Null Pointer Dereference
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

A flaw was found in GlusterFS. A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability due to an improper implementation of the posixgetfilecontents function. An attacker could exploit this to perform a Denial of Service attack.

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Source: Red Hat
First published (updated )
Severity
6.5
Infoleak
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

A flaw was found in GlusterFS. An Information Exposure vulnerability due to an improper implementation of the glusterfs.file function. An attacker could exploit this to obtain information about the files available.

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Source: Red Hat
First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
Integer Overflow, Infoleak
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

A flaw was found in the way dicunserialize function of glusterfs does not handle negative key length values. An attacker could use this flaw to read memory from other locations into the stored dict value.

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Source: MITRE
First published (updated )
Severity
8.8
Buffer Overflow
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

GlusterFS is vulnerable to multiple stack-based buffer overflows due to functions in server-rpc-fops.c allocating fixed-size buffers using 'alloca(3)'. A remote attacker could expliot this by mounting a Gluster volume and sending a string longer than the fixed buffer to cause a crash or potential code execution.

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Source: Red Hat
First published (updated )
Severity
8.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

GlusterFS does not properly sanitize file paths in the "trusted.io-stats-dump" extended attribute (xattr) as used by the "debug/io-stats" translator. The value of this extended attribute is not properly sanitized and can be exploited by an attacker to create files in arbitrary locations and subsequently execute arbitrary code. To exploit this an attacker would require sufficient access to modify the extended attributes of files on a Gluster volume.

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Source: Red Hat
First published (updated )
Severity
7

A flaw was found in glusterfs which can lead to privilege escalation on gluster server nodes.

It was found that any gluster client authenticated via TLS could use gluster cli with --remote-host command to add itself to gluster trusted pool and perform all gluster operations like peer probe itself or other machines, start, stop, delete volumes etc.

First published (updated )
Severity
8.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

A flaw was found in glusterfs which can lead to privilege escalation on gluster server nodes.

It was found that any gluster client authenticated via TLS could use gluster cli with --remote-host command to add itself to gluster trusted pool and perform all gluster operations like peer probe itself or other machines, start, stop, delete volumes etc.

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Source: Red Hat
First published (updated )
Severity
8.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

glusterfs server before versions 3.10.12, 4.0.2 is vulnerable when using 'auth.allow' option which allows any unauthenticated gluster client to connect from any network to mount gluster storage volumes. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of a CVE-2018-1088 regression.

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Source: MITRE
First published (updated )
Severity
7

As reported:

When certain options are enabled in Gluster, it creates a volume called glustersharedstorage. This volume is mounted on each server in the cluster and used to share state. The volume is not intended to be mounted by storage clients as it does not contain any data that is intended to be user accessi= ble. When snapshot scheduling is enabled in Gluster, this glustersharedstorage volume is used to coordinate the snapshots. Part of that is sharing the cron job that is used to trigger scheduled snaps. The crontab file exposed in the shared volume is symlinked into each server's /etc/cron.d directory. By default, the sharedstorage volume can be mounted by any client that has access to the cluster to mount data volumes. Further, since Gluster relies = on client-reported uids, the sharedstorage volume can be written from any of these clients, permitting cron entries to be added to the system crontab directory such that they will be executed by each server as root (or any ot= her uid).

First published (updated )
Severity
3.3
Null Pointer Dereference
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

A flaw was found in GlusterFS in versions prior to 3.10. A null pointer dereference in sendbrickreq function in glusterfsd/src/gfattach.c may be used to cause denial of service.

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Source: MITRE
First published (updated )
Severity
7

A flaw was found in the way swiftonfile (gluster-swift) serializes and stores metadata on disk by using Python's pickle module (https://docs.python.org/2/library/pickle.html). Exploiting this flaw causes remote code execution of arbitrary code on the storage node.

First published (updated )
Severity
5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

IssueDescription:

A denial of service flaw was found in the way the socketprotostatemachine() function of glusterfs processed certain fragment headers. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted fragment header that, when processed, would cause the glusterfs process to enter an infinite loop.

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Source: Red Hat
First published (updated )

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