Denial of service in Ceph - CVE-2018-7262

 

Denial of service in Ceph - CVE-2018-7262

Published: March 22, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU11220
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-7262
CWE-ID: CWE-113
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Red Hat Inc.
Affected software:
Ceph

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to perform HTTP response splitting attack.

The weakness exists in the rgw_civetweb.cc RGWCivetWeb::init_envfunction due to improper handling of HTTP headers. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP header and cause the service to crash.

How to mitigate CVE-2018-7262

Update to version 12.2.3.

Sources