Description
A flaw was found in the Cephx authentication protocol in versions before 15.2.6 and before 14.2.14, where it does not verify Ceph clients correctly and is then vulnerable to replay attacks in Nautilus. This flaw allows an attacker with access to the Ceph cluster network to authenticate with the Ceph service via a packet sniffer and perform actions allowed by the Ceph service. This issue is a reintroduction of CVE-2018-1128, affecting the msgr2 protocol. The msgr 2 protocol is used for all communication except older clients that do not support the msgr2 protocol. The msgr1 protocol is not affected. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, and system availability.
References (5)
Core 5
Core References
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1890354
Release Notes, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://ceph.io/community/v15-2-6-octopus-released/
Release Notes, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://ceph.io/releases/v14-2-14-nautilus-released/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_fedora
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UBC4KZ44QUQENTYZPVHORGL4K2KV5V4F/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-39
Scores
CVSS v3
8.8
EPSS
0.0102
EPSS Percentile
58.8%
Attack Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-294
Status
published
Products (5)
fedoraproject/fedora
33
redhat/ceph
< 14.2.14
redhat/ceph_storage
2.0
redhat/ceph_storage
4.0
redhat/openshift_container_platform
4.0
Published
Nov 23, 2020
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026