SB2021051713 - Denial of service in Ceph
Published: May 17, 2021
Security Bulletin ID
SB2021051713
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-3531)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input when processing HTTP GET requests. A remote attacker can send a request to the swift URL that ends with two slashes it can cause the rgw to crash.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.