CVE-2016-8626: Red Hat Ceph

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Red Hat Ceph: before 0.94.3.9-8 (fixed in 0.94.3.9-8)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 7.0 only

Published 2018-07-31. Last modified 2026-06-17.