CVE-2017-16818
RADOS Gateway in Ceph 12.1.0 through 12.2.1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial...
RADOS Gateway in Ceph 12.1.0 through 12.2.1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application exit) by leveraging "full" (not necessarily admin) privileges to post an invalid profile to the admin API, related to rgw/rgw_iam_policy.cc, rgw/rgw_basic_types.h, and rgw/rgw_iam_types.h.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- Low
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- High
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
NVD Score used
6.5
RADOS Gateway in Ceph 12.1.0 through 12.2.1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application exit) by leveraging "full" (not necessarily admin) privileges to post an invalid profile to the admin API, related to rgw/rgw_iam_policy.cc, rgw/rgw_basic_types.h, and rgw/rgw_iam_types.h.
- Record
CVE-2017-16818- CVSS 3.0
- 6.5 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - CVSS 2.0
- 4.0 Medium
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P - Weakness
- CWE-617
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
CVE List No score
RADOS Gateway in Ceph 12.1.0 through 12.2.1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application exit) by leveraging "full" (not necessarily admin) privileges to post an invalid profile to the admin API, related to rgw/rgw_iam_policy.cc, rgw/rgw_basic_types.h, and rgw/rgw_iam_types.h.
- Record
CVE-2017-16818- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2017-7993 No score
RADOS Gateway in Ceph 12.1.0 through 12.2.1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application exit) by leveraging "full" (not necessarily admin) privileges to post an invalid profile to the admin API, related to rgw/rgw_iam_policy.cc, rgw/rgw_basic_types.h, and rgw/rgw_iam_types.h.
- Record
EUVD-2017-7993- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-8cwf-cg6r-crcf
6.5
RADOS Gateway in Ceph 12.1.0 through 12.2.1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial...
RADOS Gateway in Ceph 12.1.0 through 12.2.1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application exit) by leveraging "full" (not necessarily admin) privileges to post an invalid profile to the admin API, related to rgw/rgw_iam_policy.cc, rgw/rgw_basic_types.h, and rgw/rgw_iam_types.h.
- Record
GHSA-8cwf-cg6r-crcf- CVSS 3.0
- 6.5 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - Weakness
- CWE-617
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSV
6.5
RADOS Gateway in Ceph 12.1.0 through 12.2.1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application exit) by leveraging "full" (not necessarily admin) privileges to post an invalid profile to the admin API, related to rgw/rgw_iam_policy.cc, rgw/rgw_basic_types.h, and rgw/rgw_iam_types.h.
- Record
CVE-2017-16818- CVSS 3.0
- 6.5 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2024:10676-1 No score
ceph-16.2.6.45+g8fda9838398-1.1 on GA media
These are all security issues fixed in the ceph-16.2.6.45+g8fda9838398-1.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.
- Record
openSUSE-SU-2024:10676-1- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2018:1417-1 No score
Security update for ceph
This update for ceph fixes the following issues:
Security issues fixed:
- CVE-2018-7262: rgw: malformed http headers can crash rgw (bsc#1081379).
- CVE-2017-16818: User reachable asserts allow for DoS (bsc#1063014).
Bug fixes:
- bsc#1061461: OSDs keep generating coredumps after adding new OSD node to cluster.
- bsc#1079076: RGW openssl fixes.
- bsc#1067088: Upgrade to SES5 restarted all nodes, majority of OSDs aborts during start.
- bsc#1056125: Some OSDs are down when doing performance testing on rbd image in EC Pool.
- bsc#1087269: allow_ec_overwrites option not in command options list.
- bsc#1051598: Fix mountpoint check for systemctl enable --runtime.
- bsc#1070357: Zabbix mgr module doesn't recover from HEALTH_ERR.
- bsc#1066502: After upgrading a single OSD from SES 4 to SES 5 the OSDs do not rejoin the cluster.
- bsc#1067119: Crushtool decompile creates wrong device entries (device 20 device20) for not existing / deleted OSDs.
- bsc#1060904: Loglevel misleading during keystone authentication.
- bsc#1056967: Monitors goes down after pool creation on cluster with 120 OSDs.
- bsc#1067705: Issues with RGW Multi-Site Federation between SES5 and RH Ceph Storage 2.
- bsc#1059458: Stopping / restarting rados gateway as part of deepsea stage.4 executions causes core-dump of radosgw.
- bsc#1087493: Commvault cannot reconnect to storage after restarting haproxy.
- bsc#1066182: Container synchronization between two Ceph clusters failed.
- bsc#1081600: Crash in civetweb/RGW.
- bsc#1054061: NFS-GANESHA service failing while trying to list mountpoint on client.
- bsc#1074301: OSDs keep aborting: SnapMapper failed asserts.
- bsc#1086340: XFS metadata corruption on rbd-nbd mapped image with journaling feature enabled.
- bsc#1080788: fsid mismatch when creating additional OSDs.
- bsc#1071386: Metadata spill onto block.slow.
- Record
SUSE-SU-2018:1417-1- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
Affected packages
| Package | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|
cephSUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3 From an advisory covering 2 CVEs |
before 12.2.5+git.1524775272.5e7ea8cf03-2.7.1 | 12.2.5+git.1524775272.5e7ea8cf03-2.7.1 |
cephSUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP3 From an advisory covering 2 CVEs |
before 12.2.5+git.1524775272.5e7ea8cf03-2.7.1 | 12.2.5+git.1524775272.5e7ea8cf03-2.7.1 |
cephSUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 From an advisory covering 2 CVEs |
before 12.2.5+git.1524775272.5e7ea8cf03-2.7.1 | 12.2.5+git.1524775272.5e7ea8cf03-2.7.1 |
cephSUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 From an advisory covering 2 CVEs |
before 12.2.5+git.1524775272.5e7ea8cf03-2.7.1 | 12.2.5+git.1524775272.5e7ea8cf03-2.7.1 |
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| affected, facts | ||
| aliases | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2017-16818 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) in Redhat Ceph, published December 20, 2017. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 2.31%, the 83rd percentile. No source names a fixed version.
References
github.com/ceph/ceph/commit/b3118cabb8060a8cc6a01c4e8264cb18e7b1745a
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1515872
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/U6VJA32U7HKGDRJQDJVM7JBYWD4T7BJL
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16818
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/U6VJA32U7HKGDRJQDJVM7JBYWD4T7BJL
github.com/advisories/GHSA-8cwf-cg6r-crcf
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suse.com/support/update/announcement/2018/suse-su-20181417-1
bugzilla.suse.com/1051598
bugzilla.suse.com/1054061
bugzilla.suse.com/1056125
bugzilla.suse.com/1056967
bugzilla.suse.com/1059458
bugzilla.suse.com/1060904
bugzilla.suse.com/1061461
bugzilla.suse.com/1063014
bugzilla.suse.com/1066182
bugzilla.suse.com/1066502
bugzilla.suse.com/1067088
bugzilla.suse.com/1067119
bugzilla.suse.com/1067705
bugzilla.suse.com/1070357
bugzilla.suse.com/1071386
bugzilla.suse.com/1074301
bugzilla.suse.com/1079076
bugzilla.suse.com/1080788
bugzilla.suse.com/1081379
bugzilla.suse.com/1081600
bugzilla.suse.com/1086340
bugzilla.suse.com/1087269
bugzilla.suse.com/1087493
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