Bug 990833 (CVE-2013-4186)

Summary: CVE-2013-4186 Gluster: access trusted peer group via remote-host command
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Kurt Seifried <kseifried>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact:
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: high    
Version: unspecifiedCC: aavati, gmollett, jrusnack, jstrunk, rwheeler, security-response-team, smohan, ssaha, vagarwal, vbellur, wmealing
Target Milestone: ---Keywords: Security
Target Release: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version: Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Story Points: ---
Clone Of: Environment:
Last Closed: 2015-02-08 23:03:13 UTC Type: ---
Regression: --- Mount Type: ---
Documentation: --- CRM:
Verified Versions: Category: ---
oVirt Team: --- RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team: --- Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
Bug Depends On: 990284, 990838, 990839    
Bug Blocks: 990841    

Description Kurt Seifried 2013-08-01 05:30:57 UTC
Joe Julian (joe) reports:

Any host, whether a peer member or not, can use the remote-host command to 
gain access to the trusted peer group.

The remote host can peer probe itself, modify the volume, set up geo-rep to a 
3rd party, etc.

Network security is not enough. Take, for instance, a storage-as-a-service 
model where you allow untrusted users to mount volumes. Since they need access 
to 24007 to retrieve their volume configuration, they can also issue 
remote-host commands.

Comment 3 Kurt Seifried 2015-02-08 23:03:13 UTC
This is by design, the network and hosts used by Gluster must be trusted.