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CVE-2018-10914

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-10914 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting GlusterFS, specifically its FUSE component, and impacting products like Debian, openSUSE, and Red Hat. An authenticated attacker can crash the Gluster brick process by sending a crafted xattr request, potentially affecting multiple bricks and volumes if multiplexing is enabled. Rated 6.5 Medium, this vulnerability is network-exploitable with low attack complexity, resulting in high availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 3.12.0, < 3.12.14CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gluster:glusterfs:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.1.0, < 4.1.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gluster:glusterfs:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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: 3.0

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Attack Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
2.1
Impact Score
3.4
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.45%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
82.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0245 is in the 93rd percentile among its peer group of 21,977 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (13)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: redhat-virtualization-host-0:4.2-20181026.0.el7_6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Native Client for RHEL 6 for Red Hat StorageFixed in: glusterfs-0:3.12.2-18.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Native Client for RHEL 7 for Red Hat StorageFixed in: glusterfs-0:3.12.2-18.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4 for RHEL 6Fixed in: glusterfs-0:3.12.2-18.el6rhs
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4 for RHEL 6Fixed in: redhat-release-server-0:6Server-6.10.0.24.el6rhs
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4 for RHEL 6Fixed in: redhat-storage-server-0:3.4.0.0-1.el6rhs
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4 for RHEL 7Fixed in: glusterfs-0:3.12.2-18.el7rhgs
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4 for RHEL 7Fixed in: redhat-release-server-0:7.5-11.el7rhgs
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4 for RHEL 7Fixed in: redhat-storage-server-0:3.4.0.0-1.el7rhgs
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: glusterfs-0:3.12.2-18.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: imgbased-0:1.0.29-1.el7ev
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: redhat-release-virtualization-host-0:4.2-7.3.el7
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redhatworkaround availablevia nvd_reference
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Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2018-10914Moderate

glusterfs: remote denial of service of gluster volumes via posix_get_file_contents function in posix-helpers.c

Sep 4, 2018

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00035.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:2607
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:2608
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:3470
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingMitigationThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00021.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00000.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201904-06
Third Party Advisory