CVE-2018-14654

MEDIUM 6.5CVE-2018-14654 · Published 31/10/2018 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2018-14654 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.5) vulnerability affecting gluster storage (redhat), virtualization (redhat), virtualization host (redhat).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.6%, higher than 85.5% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
gluster storage redhat	`≤ 4.1.4`	No fix yet
virtualization redhat	`= 4.0`	No fix yet
virtualization host redhat	`= 4.0`	No fix yet

Description

The Gluster file system through version 4.1.4 is vulnerable to abuse of the 'features/index' translator. A remote attacker with access to mount volumes could exploit this via the 'GF_XATTROP_ENTRY_IN_KEY' xattrop to create arbitrary, empty files on the target server.

References

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3431 · Vendor Advisory
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3432 · Vendor Advisory
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3470 · Vendor Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi · Issue Tracking
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00000.html · Mailing List
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-06 · Third Party Advisory

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In short

CVE-2018-14654 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.5) vulnerability affecting gluster storage (redhat), virtualization (redhat), virtualization host (redhat).

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.6%, higher than 85.5% of all vulnerabilities.

No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

gluster storage

redhat

≤ 4.1.4

No fix yet

virtualization

redhat

= 4.0

No fix yet

virtualization host

redhat

= 4.0

No fix yet

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