CVE-2018-14651 - Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

Severity

65%

Complexity

80%

Confidentiality

106%

It was found that the fix for CVE-2018-10927, CVE-2018-10928, CVE-2018-10929, CVE-2018-10930, and CVE-2018-10926 was incomplete. A remote, authenticated attacker could use one of these flaws to execute arbitrary code, create arbitrary files, or cause denial of service on glusterfs server nodes via symlinks to relative paths.

It was found that the fix for CVE-2018-10927, CVE-2018-10928, CVE-2018-10929, CVE-2018-10930, and CVE-2018-10926 was incomplete. A remote, authenticated attacker could use one of these flaws to execute arbitrary code, create arbitrary files, or cause denial of service on glusterfs server nodes via symlinks to relative paths.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 8.8. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 6 years ago

2018-10-31 22:29:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2019-04-02 07:29:00

Affected Software

Debian Linux 8.0 (Jessie)

8.0

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0

6.0

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.0 (7)

7.0

Gluster GlusterFS

References

RHSA-2018:3431

Third Party Advisory

RHSA-2018:3432

Third Party Advisory

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-14651

Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory

[debian-lts-announce] 20181105 [SECURITY] [DLA 1565-1] glusterfs security update

Third Party Advisory

GLSA-201904-06

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