CVE-2018-10841

A flaw was found in glusterfs which can lead to privilege escalation on gluster server nodes. An authenticated gluster client via TLS could use gluster cli with --remote-host command to add it self to trusted storage pool and perform privileged gluster operations like adding other machines to trusted storage pool, start, stop, and delete volumes.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7 are not affected by this flaw as it only affects glusterfs-server package. Red Hat Virtualization Hypervisor is not impacted by this flaw, as it uses gluster in a controlled manner via vdsm.

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