6.8

CVE-2018-10924: gluster glusterfs Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVSS: 6.8v2.0MediumModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2018-10924DEBIAN-CVE-2018-10924
Published 04-09-2018Last modified 05-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2018-10924 is a medium (CVSS 6.8) Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in gluster glusterfs. EPSS estimates a 1.88% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 79.1% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
28/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
6.8/10
010
Medium · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
1.88%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 2 · Related 2
OPENSUSE-SU-2020:0079-1USN-4770-1

Timeline

  1. 04-09-2018
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 05-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

It was discovered that fsync(2) system call in glusterfs client code leaks memory. An authenticated attacker could use this flaw to launch a denial of service attack by making gluster clients consume memory of the host machine.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 4 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

1.88%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

79%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 1.88% on 18-09-2026

18-09-202618-10-2026
EPSS score
1.88%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Debian1 product
  • glusterfs< 4.0.1-1
Gluster1 product
  • glusterfs≥ 3.12.11, < 3.12.14 | ≥ 4.0.0, < 4.1.4
Red hat1 product
Ubuntu1 product
  • glusterfs< 3.13.2-1ubuntu1+esm1

4 vendors · 4 products

References

9 links