CVE-2018-14722

8.1 highEPSS 3.0%

High (8.1) in btrfsmaintenance project btrfsmaintenance. EPSS 3.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in evaluate_auto_mountpoint in btrfsmaintenance-functions in btrfsmaintenance through 0.4.1. Code execution as root can occur via a specially crafted filesystem label if btrfs-{scrub,balance,trim} are set to auto in /etc/sysconfig/btrfsmaintenance (this is not the default, though).

Severity

CVSS 3.0

8.1 high

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 3.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 87% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
Published: 2018-08-15
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

btrfsmaintenance_project:btrfsmaintenance

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/08/14/7
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/06/27/7
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/06/28/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/06/28/2
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1102721

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