CVE-2018-10904: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

It was found that glusterfs server does not properly sanitize file paths in the "trusted.io-stats-dump" extended attribute which is used by the "debug/io-stats" translator. Attacker can use this flaw to create files and execute arbitrary code. To exploit this attacker would require sufficient access to modify the extended attributes of files on a gluster volume.

Affected products

  • Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
  • Gluster Glusterfs: from 3.12.0, before 3.12.14 (fixed in 3.12.14); from 4.1.0, before 4.1.8 (fixed in 4.1.8)
  • Opensuse Leap: version 15.1 only
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
  • Red Hat Virtualization Host: version 4.0 only

Published 2018-09-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.