RHEL 6 : glusterfs (RHSA-2018:1137)

high Nessus Plugin ID 109160

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for glusterfs.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:1137 advisory.

- glusterfs: Privilege escalation via gluster_shared_storage when snapshot scheduling is enabled (CVE-2018-1088)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL glusterfs package based on the guidance in RHSA-2018:1137.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/articles/3414511

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1137

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1558721

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

http://www.nessus.org/u?d754535f

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 109160

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-1137.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/19/2018

Updated: 10/30/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-1088

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-gluster, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glusterfs-cli, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glusterfs-ganesha, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glusterfs-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glusterfs-api-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glusterfs-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glusterfs-fuse, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glusterfs-rdma, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glusterfs-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glusterfs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glusterfs-geo-replication, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glusterfs-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glusterfs-events, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glusterfs-client-xlators

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/18/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/18/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1088

CWE: 266

RHSA: 2018:1137