CVE-2018-14722: Btrfsmaintenance Project Btrfsmaintenance

High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in evaluate_auto_mountpoint in btrfsmaintenance-functions in btrfsmaintenance through 0.4.1. Code execution as root can occur via a specially crafted filesystem label if btrfs-{scrub,balance,trim} are set to auto in /etc/sysconfig/btrfsmaintenance (this is not the default, though).

Affected products

• Btrfsmaintenance Project Btrfsmaintenance: up to and including 0.4.1

Published 2018-08-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.