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CVE-2018-1088

24
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-1088 describes a high-severity privilege escalation vulnerability in Gluster 3.x snapshot scheduler, affecting Debian, openSUSE, and Red Hat distributions. An unauthenticated Gluster client could exploit this flaw by mounting Gluster volumes, then mounting shared storage to schedule malicious cron jobs via symlinks. This attack has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, but requires high attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 3.0, <= 3.13.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:gluster_storage:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:virtualization:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:virtualization_host:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.1HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.2
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
5.55%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
92.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0555 is in the 62nd percentile among its peer group of 8,920 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (12)

redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Native Client for RHEL 6 for Red Hat StorageFixed in: glusterfs-0:3.8.4-54.7.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Native Client for RHEL 7 for Red Hat StorageFixed in: glusterfs-0:3.8.4-54.6.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: glusterfs-0:3.8.4-54.7.el6rhs
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: glusterfs-0:3.8.4-54.6.el7rhgs
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: glusterfs-0:3.8.4-54.6.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: redhat-release-virtualization-host-0:4.1-11.0.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: redhat-virtualization-host-0:4.1-20180426.0
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: imgbased-0:1.0.16-0.1.el7ev
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: ovirt-node-ng-0:4.2.0-0.20170814.0.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: redhat-release-virtualization-host-0:4.2-3.0.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: redhat-virtualization-host-0:4.2-20180508.0
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Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2018-1088Important

glusterfs: Privilege escalation via gluster_shared_storage when snapshot scheduling is enabled

Apr 18, 2018

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00035.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:1136
Vendor Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:1137
Vendor Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:1275
Vendor Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:1524
Vendor Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00000.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201904-06
Third Party Advisory