Denial of Service Vulnerability in Ceph Object Gateway by Red Hat
CVE-2016-9579

6.5MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Red Hat
Status
Ceph
Vendor
CVE Published:
1 August 2018

Summary

A security flaw exists in the Ceph Object Gateway's handling of cross-origin HTTP requests when a CORS policy allows origin access on a bucket. This vulnerability permits remote unauthenticated attackers to exploit the flaw, potentially leading to a denial of service. Specifically, an attacker can craft and send a malicious cross-origin HTTP request, which may disrupt service availability. Ceph branches 1.3.x and 2.x are specifically affected by this issue.

Affected Version(s)

ceph 1.3 and 2

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2954.html
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http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2995.html
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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94936
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EPSS Score

23% chance of being exploited in the next 30 days.

CVSS V3.1

Score:
6.5
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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