SB2024020929 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat Ceph Storage 5.3



SB2024020929 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat Ceph Storage 5.3

Published: February 9, 2024 Updated: August 2, 2024

Security Bulletin ID SB2024020929
CSH Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Data manipulation

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 vulnerabilities.


1) Improper Authorization (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-43040)

CWE-ID: CWE-285 - Improper Authorization

CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/U:Green


The vulnerability allows a remote user to bypass implemented security restrictions.

The vulnerability exists due to improper authorization in radogw API gateway in Ceph when processing POST requests. A remote unprivileged user can write to any bucket(s) accessible by a given key if a POST form-data contains a key called "bucket" with a value matching the bucket's name used to sign the request.


2) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-46159)

CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion

CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear


The vulnerability allows a user in adjacent network to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources. A user in adjacent network can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack from RGW.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.