CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-1128

Improper Authentication

Published: Jul 10, 2018 | Modified: Nov 17, 2020
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
5.4 MEDIUM
AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
5.9 MODERATE
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

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.

Weakness

When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Ceph_storage Redhat 3 (including) 3 (including)
Ceph_storage_mon Redhat 2 (including) 2 (including)
Ceph_storage_mon Redhat 3 (including) 3 (including)
Ceph_storage_osd Redhat 2 (including) 2 (including)
Ceph_storage_osd Redhat 3 (including) 3 (including)
Enterprise_linux Redhat 7.0 (including) 7.0 (including)
Enterprise_linux_desktop Redhat 7.0 (including) 7.0 (including)
Enterprise_linux_server Redhat 7.0 (including) 7.0 (including)
Enterprise_linux_workstation Redhat 7.0 (including) 7.0 (including)
Red Hat Ceph Storage 2.5 RedHat ceph-2:10.2.10-28.el7cp *
Red Hat Ceph Storage 2.5 RedHat ceph-ansible-0:3.0.39-1.el7cp *
Red Hat Ceph Storage 2 for Ubuntu RedHat *
Red Hat Ceph Storage 3.0 RedHat ceph-2:12.2.4-30.el7cp *
Red Hat Ceph Storage 3.0 RedHat ceph-ansible-0:3.0.39-1.el7cp *
Red Hat Ceph Storage 3.0 RedHat cephmetrics-0:1.0.1-1.el7cp *
Red Hat Ceph Storage 3.0 RedHat nfs-ganesha-0:2.5.5-6.el7cp *
Red Hat Ceph Storage 3 for Ubuntu RedHat *
Ceph Ubuntu artful *
Ceph Ubuntu esm-infra-legacy/trusty *
Ceph Ubuntu precise/esm *
Ceph Ubuntu trusty *
Ceph Ubuntu trusty/esm *
Ceph Ubuntu upstream *

Potential Mitigations

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