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CVE-2017-16818

RADOS Gateway in Ceph 12.1.0 through 12.2.1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial...

6.5 Medium

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

2.31%Up 1.0 points since Apr 14, 2021
90%50%10%1%

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 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0
4.0 MediumAV: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 MediumCVSS: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 MediumCVSS: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

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
ceph
SUSE: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
ceph
SUSE: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
ceph
SUSE: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
ceph
SUSE: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

History
RecordedChangedSources
affected, facts
aliasesEUVD
first indexedCVE 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.

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