THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2018-10907
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2018-10907

Glusterfs vulnerability

CVSS
8.8
EPSS
3.4%
EPSS pct
87th
Exploited
No known
It was found that glusterfs server is vulnerable to multiple stack based buffer overflows due to functions in server-rpc-fopc.c allocating fixed size buffers using 'alloca(3)'. An authenticated attacker could exploit this by mounting a gluster volume and sending a string longer that the fixed buffer size to cause crash or potential code execution.
Affected vendor
Gluster
Affected product
Glusterfs
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-121 — Stack-based Buffer Overflow
  • CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write
Published
2018-09-04

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring low privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.4% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 87% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2018-10907

  • Confirm whether Gluster Glusterfs is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2018-10907.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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