Ceph
CVE-2020-1760
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A05:2025 - Injection
ASVS 5.0
V1 - Encoding and Sanitization Output encoding, context-aware escaping
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 2 tactics: Initial Access, Execution The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Impact | CVSS score of 6.1 (MEDIUM). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, low complexity, no privileges required, user interaction required. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A remote attacker could inject malicious scripts into web pages viewed by other users by sending crafted requests to the affected application. No authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability. |
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Alert meAnalysisAI
A flaw was found in the Ceph Object Gateway, where it supports request sent by an anonymous user in Amazon S3. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. This Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability could allow attackers to inject malicious scripts into web pages viewed by other users.
RemediationAI
A vendor patch is available. Apply the latest security update as soon as possible. Sanitize all user input, use Content-Security-Policy headers, encode output contextually (HTML, JS, URL). Use frameworks with built-in XSS protection.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
This vulnerability is classified as Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) (CWE-79), which allows attackers to inject malicious scripts into web pages viewed by other users. A flaw was found in the Ceph Object Gateway, where it supports request sent by an anonymous user in Amazon S3. This flaw could lead to potential XSS attacks due to the lack of proper neutralization of untrusted input. Affected products include: Linuxfoundation Ceph, Redhat Ceph Storage, Redhat Openshift Container Platform, Fedoraproject Fedora, Canonical Ubuntu Linux.
Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Primary rating from NVD · only source for this CVE.
CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionNVD
A flaw was found in the Ceph Object Gateway, where it supports request sent by an anonymous user in Amazon S3. This flaw could lead to potential XSS attacks due to the lack of proper neutralization of untrusted input.
Threat Intelligence Overview
NVD
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EPSS
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Attack Technique
Cross-Site Scripting occurs when an application accepts untrusted data and sends it to a web browser without proper validation or encoding.
Affected Products (CPE)NVD
The RGW code in Ceph before 10.0.1, when authenticated-read ACL is applied to a bucket, allows remote attackers to list
A kernel crash (oops) in the CephFS client can be triggered when the fscrypt filename-decryption path hands vmalloc()-ba
A use-after-free race in the Linux kernel CephFS client allows a local process to crash the kernel while opening a file
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
A flaw was found in the way civetweb frontend was handling requests for ceph RGW server with SSL enabled. Rated high sev
GitHub PoC
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