A privilege escalation flaw was found in gluster 3.x snapshot scheduler. Any gluster client allowed to mount gluster volumes could also mount shared gluster storage volume and escalate privileges by scheduling malicious cronjob via symlink.
CVE-2018-1088
Score 8.1 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2022-05-13. NVD baseline CVSS 8.1; sources differ by 0.0.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 8.1
- EG Score
- 8.1HIGHmedium confidence
- EG Risk
- 57EG Risk 57/100CISA SSVC
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity81% × 45%Exploitation40% × 40%Automatability30% × 15%CISA SSVC: Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* or Attend at high (mission-essential systems).Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high. - EPSS PROB
- 5.5%
- EPSS %ILE
- 92nd
- KEV
- Not listed
CISA SSVCTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* or Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
Exploitation public PoC (EG-KEV: elevated) · Automatable unknown (not published for this CVE) · Technical impact partial (CVSS below 9.0). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table
Published
April 18, 2018
Last Modified
November 21, 2024
Advisory Details (7)
Auto-updated Sep 13, 2026Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 for Red Hat Storage and Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.3 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1136GlusterFS: Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 201904-06) — Gentoo security
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-06[SECURITY] [DLA 2806-1] glusterfs security update
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00000.html1558721 – (CVE-2018-1088) CVE-2018-1088 glusterfs: Privilege escalation via gluster_shared_storage when snapshot scheduling is enabled
Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, and 7 because only gluster client is shipped in these products.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1558721Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1275Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 for Red Hat Storage and Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.3 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1137Patch Availability(5)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fix (by version range) / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | glusterfs-common (3.7.6-1ubuntu1+esm1) @ xenial | 2026-05-28 | ubuntu |
| redhat | redhat-virtualization-host-0:4.2-20180508.0 | 2018-05-15 | redhat |
| redhat | redhat-virtualization-host-0:4.1-20180426.0 | 2018-05-02 | redhat |
| redhat | glusterfs-0:3.8.4-54.7.el6rhs | 2018-04-18 | redhat |
| redhat | glusterfs-0:3.8.4-54.6.el7 | 2018-04-18 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(5 across 5 ecosystems)
Debian:11(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| glusterfs | — |
| — |
Debian:12(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| glusterfs | — |
| — |
Debian:13(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| glusterfs | — |
| — |
Debian:14(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| glusterfs | — |
| — |
Debian:9(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| glusterfs | 3.8.8-1 |
| — |
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
All Vendor Advisories
(5)
Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.
- Red HatRHSA-2018:1136IMPORTANT2018-04-18
RHSA-2018:1136 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2018:1137IMPORTANT2018-04-18
RHSA-2018:1137 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2018:1275IMPORTANT2018-04-18
RHSA-2018:1275 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2018:1524IMPORTANT2018-04-18
RHSA-2018:1524 — Important
- UbuntuUSN-4770-1MEDIUM
GlusterFS vulnerabilities
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 5× in last 7d / 25× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
Showing the most recent 100 of 160 total refreshes for this CVE.
- 2026-10-09 20:02 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-10-08 16:36 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-10-07 23:42 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-10-06 15:12 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-10-05 17:39 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-10-03 14:21 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-10-01 19:44 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-30 14:59 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-30 09:51 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-29 06:31 UTCOSV refresh
- 2026-09-28 13:45 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-27 13:40 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-26 15:53 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-24 13:59 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-24 13:59 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-20 20:10 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-19 15:36 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-18 19:22 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-17 19:22 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-16 05:06 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-15 03:05 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-13 16:42 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-12 14:56 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-11 14:47 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-11 09:32 UTCEPSS rescore
Show 75 moreShow fewer
- 2026-09-09 11:23 UTCOSV refresh
- 2026-09-07 15:57 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-06 13:43 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-05 15:24 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-04 13:56 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-04 05:02 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-02 14:07 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-01 13:49 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-01 03:32 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-28 21:36 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-27 14:21 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-26 14:42 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-25 13:44 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-22 18:37 UTCOSV refresh
- 2026-08-21 23:45 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-20 22:51 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-19 17:00 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-18 13:44 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-16 14:51 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-16 02:10 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-15 01:26 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-13 21:56 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-12 13:46 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-09 13:43 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-08 16:32 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-07 16:23 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-06 22:34 UTCOSV refresh
- 2026-08-06 13:42 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-05 19:13 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-04 15:05 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-02 02:23 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-01 04:12 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-30 16:24 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-30 01:27 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-28 15:32 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-25 14:14 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-24 14:14 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-24 14:14 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-23 14:15 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-23 01:32 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-22 22:12 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-22 14:05 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-21 15:22 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-21 14:17 UTCOSV refresh
- 2026-07-20 17:04 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-20 17:04 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-19 14:28 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-19 02:26 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-19 02:26 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-16 16:59 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-16 16:59 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-15 16:55 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-15 16:55 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-15 01:56 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-15 01:56 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-13 22:27 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-13 22:26 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-13 06:10 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-12 05:43 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-11 08:24 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-09 19:06 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-08 15:11 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-06 16:24 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-06 16:24 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-06 02:20 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-05 02:27 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-04 09:56 UTCOSV refresh
- 2026-07-04 06:28 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-04 06:28 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-02 16:54 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-01 15:03 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-01 15:03 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-30 23:20 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-30 23:19 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-28 14:04 UTCEPSS rescore
Publicly available exploits
(1 reference)Working exploit code is in the public domain (1 GitHub PoC). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly — public PoCs typically lead to mass-exploitation within 24-72 hours.
- GitHub PoCMauroEldritch/GEVAUDANFirst seen Jun 11, 2018
Exploit for Red Hat / GlusterFS CVE-2018-1088 & CVE-2018-1112, featured @ DEFCON 26, Las Vegas!
Open source ↗
Related CVEs(same product + same vendor + same CWE)
Same product
10 shownDebian:9:glusterfs
Same vendor
10 shownredhat:RHSA-2018:1524 · ubuntu:USN-4770-1
Frequently asked(5)
What is CVE-2018-1088?
When was CVE-2018-1088 disclosed?
Is CVE-2018-1088 actively exploited?
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2018-1088?
How do I remediate CVE-2018-1088?
Dependency Blast Radius
See which npm, PyPI, Go, and Maven packages are affected by CVE-2018-1088
Is Your Infrastructure Affected by CVE-2018-1088?
EchelonGraph automatically scans your cloud infrastructure and maps CVE exposure using blast radius analysis.