Denial of Service Vulnerability in Ceph RADOS Gateway by Civetweb
CVE-2019-3821

7.5HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor

[unknown]

Status
Ceph
Vendor
CVE Published:
27 March 2019

What is CVE-2019-3821?

A vulnerability exists in the Civetweb frontend used by Ceph RADOS Gateway that improperly manages request handling when SSL is enabled. An attacker can exploit this flaw by establishing multiple connections, which may lead to the exhaustion of file descriptors for the ceph-radosgw service. This results in a remote denial of service, potentially affecting service availability.

Affected Version(s)

ceph

References

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4035-1/
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3821
x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/ceph/civetweb/pull/33
x_refsource_MISC

CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.5
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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