CVE-2018-10928: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A flaw was found in RPC request using gfs3_symlink_req in glusterfs server which allows symlink destinations to point to file paths outside of the gluster volume. An authenticated attacker could use this flaw to create arbitrary symlinks pointing anywhere on the server and execute arbitrary code on glusterfs server nodes.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Gluster Glusterfs: from 3.12, before 3.12.14 (fixed in 3.12.14); from 4.1, before 4.1.8 (fixed in 4.1.8)
• Opensuse Leap: version 15.1 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Gluster Storage: version 3.0 only
• Red Hat Virtualization Host: version 4.0 only

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