Ceph
CVE-2017-16818
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
ASVS 5.0
V16 - Security Logging and Error Handling Reachable assertion handling
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| Impact | CVSS score of 6.5 (MEDIUM). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, low complexity, low privileges required, no user interaction not required. EPSS exploitation probability: 0.59%. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | This vulnerability can be exploited remotely over the network. Successful exploitation could compromise the medium-severity affected system. |
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RADOS Gateway in Ceph 12.1.0 through 12.2.1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application exit) by leveraging "full" (not necessarily admin). Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity.
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A vendor patch is available. Apply the latest security update as soon as possible. Apply vendor patches when available. Implement network segmentation and monitoring as interim mitigations.
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This vulnerability is classified under CWE-617. RADOS Gateway in Ceph 12.1.0 through 12.2.1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application exit) by leveraging "full" (not necessarily admin) privileges to post an invalid profile to the admin API, related to rgw/rgw_iam_policy.cc, rgw/rgw_basic_types.h, and rgw/rgw_iam_types.h. Affected products include: Redhat Ceph, Fedoraproject Fedora. Version information: through 12.2.1.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionCVE.org
RADOS Gateway in Ceph 12.1.0 through 12.2.1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application exit) by leveraging "full" (not necessarily admin) privileges to post an invalid profile to the admin API, related to rgw/rgw_iam_policy.cc, rgw/rgw_basic_types.h, and rgw/rgw_iam_types.h.
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EPSS
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Attack Technique
Denial of Service attacks render applications or systems unavailable by overwhelming resources or triggering failure conditions.
Affected Products (CPE)CVE.org
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A flaw was found in Openstack manilla owning a Ceph File system "share", which enables the owner to read/write any manil
A flaw was found in the Cephx authentication protocol in versions before 15.2.6 and before 14.2.14, where it does not ve
A flaw was found in the way ceph mon handles user requests. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.1), this vulnerability is remote
An authorization bypass vulnerability was found in Ceph versions 15.2.0 before 15.2.2, where the ceph-mon and ceph-mgr d
It was found that cephx authentication protocol did not verify ceph clients correctly and was vulnerable to replay attac
An issue was discovered in Ceph through 13.2.9. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitab
A path traversal flaw was found in the Ceph dashboard implemented in upstream versions v14.2.5, v14.2.6, v15.0.0 of Ceph
A flaw was found in the Ceph RGW configuration with Beast as the front end handling client requests. Rated high severity
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