Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat Ceph Storage

Published: 2019-01-21

Risk	Low
Patch available	YES
Number of vulnerabilities	2
CVE-ID	CVE-2018-16846 CVE-2018-14662
CWE-ID	CWE-119 CWE-200
Exploitation vector	Network
Public exploit	N/A
Vulnerable software Subscribe	Ceph Server applications / Other server solutions
Vendor	Red Hat Inc.

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains information about 2 vulnerabilities.

1) Memory corruption

EUVDB-ID: #VU17097

Risk: Low

CVSSv3.1: 5.7 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2018-16846

CWE-ID: CWE-119 - Memory corruption

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists in the RADOS Gateway (RGW) code base due to boundary error in the ListBucket max-keys function during bucket listing operations. A remote attacker with Ceph RGW user permissions can trigger memory corruption and perform a denial of service attack against object maps (OMAPs) holding bucket indexes.

Mitigation

Update to version 13.2.4.

Vulnerable software versions

Ceph: 12.1.0 - 13.2.3

External links

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16846
http://ceph.com/releases/13-2-4-mimic-released/

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote authenticated user via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.

2) Information disclosure

EUVDB-ID: #VU17098

Risk: Low

CVSSv3.1: 3.8 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2018-14662

CWE-ID: CWE-200 - Information exposure