Resource exhaustion in The Gluster Project Glusterfs

CVE-2018-14659

The Gluster file system through versions 4.1.4 and 3.1.2 is vulnerable to a denial of service attack via use of the 'GF_XATTR_IOSTATS_DUMP_KEY' xattr. A remote, authenticated attacker could exploit this by mounting a Gluster volume and repeatedly calling 'setxattr(2)' to trigger a state dump and create an arbitrary number of files in the server's runtime directory.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.022 (80.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-14659?
CVE-2018-14659 is a medium-severity vulnerability in The Gluster Project Glusterfs, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-10-31.
How severe is CVE-2018-14659?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.