CVE-2018-14659 in Red Hat and Debian Products
Published on October 31, 2018
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.
Weakness Type
What is a Resource Exhaustion Vulnerability?
The software does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources.
CVE-2018-14659 has been classified to as a Resource Exhaustion vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2018-14659
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Affected Versions
The Gluster Project glusterfs Version through 3.1.2 and 4.1.4 is affected by CVE-2018-14659Exploit Probability
EPSS
2.14%
Percentile
83.94%
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) scores estimate the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days. The percentile shows you how this score compares to all other vulnerabilities.