CVE-2018-14722

HIGH 8.1CVE-2018-14722 · Published 15/08/2018 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2018-14722 is a HIGH (CVSS 8.1) vulnerability affecting btrfsmaintenance (btrfsmaintenance project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 3.0%, higher than 87.4% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
btrfsmaintenance btrfsmaintenance_project	`≤ 0.4.1`	No fix yet

Description

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).

References

openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/08/14/7 · Mailing List
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/06/27/7
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/06/28/1
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/06/28/2
bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi · Issue Tracking

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