Vulnerability CVE-2018-14659
Published: 2018-10-31

Description:
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 'GF_XATTR_IOSTATS_DUMP_KEY' 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.

Type:

CWE-400

 (Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4/10
2.9/10
8/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
Single time
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Redhat -> Gluster storage 
Redhat -> Enterprise linux server 
Redhat -> Enterprise linux virtualization 
Debian -> Debian linux 

 References:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3431
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3432
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3470
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-14659
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00003.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-06
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