CVE-2016-8626

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 6
Modified
Published: 31 Jul 2018, 19:00
Last modified:06 Aug 2024, 02:27

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
28/100
CVSS Score
6.8 MEDIUM
v2.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
2.87% LOW
3% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

31 Jul 2018, 19:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
06 Aug 2024, 02:27
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

A flaw was found in Red Hat Ceph before 0.94.9-8. The way Ceph Object Gateway handles POST object requests permits an authenticated attacker to launch a denial of service attack by sending null or specially crafted POST object requests.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.0•MEDIUM•Score: 6.5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 6.8AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 2.87%• Percentile: 87%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-20•Improper Input Validation

    The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly.

  • CWE-476•NULL Pointer Dereference

    The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Systems

  • red hat•ceph

    0.94.9-8

  • redhat•ceph

    < 0.94.3.9-8

  • redhat•enterprise_linux_desktop

    7.0

  • redhat•enterprise_linux_server

    7.0

  • redhat•enterprise_linux_workstation

    7.0

References (7)