CVE-2018-10923

It was found that the "mknod" call derived from mknod(2) can create files pointing to devices on a glusterfs server node. An authenticated attacker could use this to create an arbitrary device and read data from any device attached to the glusterfs server node.

• CWE-20
• CWE-20

• https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00035.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2607Third Party Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2608Third Party Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3470Third Party Advisory
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10923Issue Tracking, Mitigation
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00021.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00000.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-06Third Party Advisory
• https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00035.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2607Third Party Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2608Third Party Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3470Third Party Advisory
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10923Issue Tracking, Mitigation
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00021.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00000.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-06Third Party Advisory

Published

Sep 4, 2018

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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