CVE-2020-1716

HIGH

Ceph <6.0.0alpha1 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A flaw was found in the ceph-ansible playbook where it contained hardcoded passwords that were being used as default passwords while deploying Ceph services. Any authenticated attacker can abuse this flaw to brute-force Ceph deployments, and gain administrator access to Ceph clusters via the Ceph dashboard to initiate read, write, and delete Ceph clusters and also modify Ceph cluster configurations. Versions before ceph-ansible 6.0.0alpha1 are affected.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1795592

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0127
EPSS Percentile 66.0%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-798
Status published
Products (1)
ceph/ceph-ansible < 5.0.3
Published May 28, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026