UBUNTU-CVE-2018-1088

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2018-1088

    Published: 18 Apr 2018Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-1088
    Aliases:
    USN-4770-1

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-1088, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1558721, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4770-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-1088

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: glusterfs

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+esm1?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.7.6-1ubuntu1+esm1

    Affected versions

    3.7.3-1ubuntu1
    3.7.3-1ubuntu2
    3.7.6-1ubuntu1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High