CVE-2018-1088: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 5.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 9.0 only
• Opensuse Leap: version 15.1 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Gluster Storage: from 3.0, up to and including 3.13.2
• Red Hat Virtualization: version 4.0 only
• Red Hat Virtualization Host: version 4.0 only

Published 2018-04-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.