Improper Authorization in Ceph - CVE-2020-10736

 

Improper Authorization in Ceph - CVE-2020-10736

Published: May 21, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU28173
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-10736
CWE-ID: CWE-285
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

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

The vulnerability exists due to improper authorization, related to mons & mgrs. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and bypass implemented security restrictions.


Affected software

Ceph
ceph (Alpine package)
ceph (Ubuntu package)
ceph-base (Ubuntu package)
ceph-common (Ubuntu package)
Ubuntu

How to mitigate CVE-2020-10736

Install updates from vendor's website.

Ceph - update to 15.2.2
ceph (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 15.2.7-0ubuntu0.20.04.2, 15.2.7-0ubuntu0.20.10.3
ceph-base (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 15.2.7-0ubuntu0.20.04.2, 15.2.7-0ubuntu0.20.10.3
ceph-common (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 15.2.7-0ubuntu0.20.04.2, 15.2.7-0ubuntu0.20.10.3

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