Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in GlusterFS by Red Hat

CVE-2018-10841

Summary

GlusterFS is susceptible to privilege escalation through an authenticated gluster client utilizing TLS. This vulnerability allows a malicious user to exploit the gluster cli with the --remote-host command, enabling them to incorporate themselves into a trusted storage pool and execute elevated gluster operations, such as adding devices to the trusted pool, starting, stopping, and deleting volumes.

References