CVE-2018-10923: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

It was found that the "mknod" call derived from mknod(2) can create files pointing to devices on a glusterfs server node. An authenticated attacker could use this to create an arbitrary device and read data from any device attached to the glusterfs server node.

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.