Vulnerability in btrfsmaintenance
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A vulnerability tracked as DEBIAN-CVE-2018-14722 has been found in btrfsmaintenance.
Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover.
What to do: upgrade btrfsmaintenance to 0.4.1-2 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "btrfsmaintenance DEBIAN-CVE-2018-14722" on the vendor's site.
DEBIAN-CVE-2018-14722 (btrfsmaintenance)
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / unauthenticated / no user interaction
Patched: 0.4.1-2 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (unclassified) exists in btrfsmaintenance.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of btrfsmaintenance.
Severity: ?. Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover.
Update to 0.4.1-2.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'btrfsmaintenance' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1
Identify exposureidentify
grep -r 'btrfsmaintenance' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
btrfsmaintenanceを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
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Apply patchpatch
Upgrade btrfsmaintenance to 0.4.1-2ステージング環境で 0.4.1-2 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
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3
Post-deployment verificationverify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian:12 | btrfsmaintenance |
< 0.4.1-2 |
0.4.1-2 |
| Debian:13 | btrfsmaintenance |
< 0.4.1-2 |
0.4.1-2 |
| Debian:14 | btrfsmaintenance |
< 0.4.1-2 |
0.4.1-2 |
Original description The description as published by the source.
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).
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV
References
- advisory security-tracker.debian.org