Denial of service in Ceph



Published: 2019-08-29
Risk Medium
Patch available YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2019-10222
CWE-ID CWE-399
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit N/A
Vulnerable software
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Ceph
Server applications / Other server solutions

Vendor Red Hat Inc.

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.

1) Resource management error

EUVDB-ID: #VU20465

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 4.6 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2019-10222

CWE-ID: CWE-399 - Resource Management Errors

Exploit availability: No

Description

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

The vulnerability exists due to failure in the RADOS gateway implementation when handing client disconnects. A remote authenticated attacker can abuse this error and perform denial of service attack.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

Ceph: 12.2.0 - 13.2.5

External links

http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/29967
http://github.com/ceph/ceph/commit/6171399fdedd928b4249d135b4036e3de25079aa


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.



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