Description
It was found that cephx authentication protocol did not verify ceph clients correctly and was vulnerable to replay attack. Any attacker having access to ceph cluster network who is able to sniff packets on network can use this vulnerability to authenticate with ceph service and perform actions allowed by ceph service. Ceph branches master, mimic, luminous and jewel are believed to be vulnerable.
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CVSS Vector Breakdown
Exploitability
AV:AAttack VectorAdjacent
AC:HAttack ComplexityHigh
PR:NPrivileges RequiredNone
UI:NUser InteractionNone
Scope
S:UScopeUnchanged
Impact
C:HConfidentialityHigh
I:HIntegrityHigh
A:HAvailabilityHigh
Weaknesses
Affected Products
redhat
commercial·USaka red hat
Red Hat, Inc.
commercial·USaka ceph, 389-ds-base, redhat, keycloak
debian
oss-project·GBaka debian gnu/linux
opensuse
oss-project·DE
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Exploitability
Official Patch Available
Attack Graph
Products CVE Techniques Tactics
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MITRE ATT&CK
3 techniques Defense Evasion
Initial Access
References
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2261
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2177
access.redhat.com
https://github.com/ceph/ceph/commit/5ead97120e07054d80623dada90a5cc764c28468
github.com
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