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
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 secuirty vulnerabilities.


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

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)

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.