Red Hat Ceph vulnerabilities

17 CVEs affecting Red Hat Ceph, 0 known to be exploited (CISA KEV), with EPSS scores. Latest: CVE-2024-47866, published 2025-11-12.

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CVE-2018-7262, published 2018-03-19. High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. In Ceph before 12.2.3 and 13.x through 13.0.1, the rgw_civetweb.cc RGWCivetWeb::init_env function in radosgw doesn't handle malformed HTTP headers properly, allowing for denial of service.
CVE-2016-5009, published 2016-07-12. Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. The handle_command function in mon/Monitor.cc in Ceph allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault and ceph monitor crash) via an (1) empty or (2) crafted prefix.
CVE-2020-27839, published 2021-05-26. Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. A flaw was found in ceph-dashboard. The JSON Web Token (JWT) used for user authentication is stored by the frontend application in the browser’s localStorage which is potentially vulnerable to…
CVE-2021-3531, published 2021-05-18. Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. A flaw was found in the Red Hat Ceph Storage RGW in versions before 14.2.21. When processing a GET Request for a swift URL that ends with two slashes it can cause the rgw to crash, resulting in a…
CVE-2017-16818, published 2017-12-20. Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. 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)…
CVE-2016-8626, published 2018-07-31. 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…
CVE-2018-16846, published 2019-01-15. Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. It was found in Ceph versions before 13.2.4 that authenticated ceph RGW users can cause a denial of service against OMAPs holding bucket indices.
CVE-2015-5245, published 2015-12-03. Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. CRLF injection vulnerability in the Ceph Object Gateway (aka radosgw or RGW) in Ceph before 0.94.4 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks…
CVE-2021-3524, published 2021-05-17. Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. A flaw was found in the Red Hat Ceph Storage RadosGW (Ceph Object Gateway) in versions before 14.2.21. The vulnerability is related to the injection of HTTP headers via a CORS ExposeHeader tag. The…
CVE-2018-1128, published 2018-07-10. High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. 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…

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CVE-2024-47866, published 2025-11-12. High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Ceph is a distributed object, block, and file storage platform. In versions up to and including 19.2.3, using the argument `x-amz-copy-source` to put an object and specifying an empty string as its…
CVE-2022-3650, published 2023-01-17. High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. A privilege escalation flaw was found in Ceph. Ceph-crash.service allows a local attacker to escalate privileges to root in the form of a crash dump, and dump privileged information.
CVE-2020-25678, published 2021-01-08. Medium severity, CVSS 4.4. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. A flaw was found in ceph in versions prior to 16.y.z where ceph stores mgr module passwords in clear text. This can be found by searching the mgr logs for grafana and dashboard, with passwords…
CVE-2020-27781, published 2020-12-18. High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. User credentials can be manipulated and stolen by Native CephFS consumers of OpenStack Manila, resulting in potential privilege escalation. An Open Stack Manila user can request access to a share to…
CVE-2020-25660, published 2020-11-23. High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. A flaw was found in the Cephx authentication protocol in versions before 15.2.6 and before 14.2.14, where it does not verify Ceph clients correctly and is then vulnerable to replay attacks in…
CVE-2018-16889, published 2019-01-28. High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Ceph does not properly sanitize encryption keys in debug logging for v4 auth. This results in the leaking of encryption key information in log files via plaintext. Versions up to v13.2.4 are…
CVE-2018-14662, published 2019-01-15. Medium severity, CVSS 5.7. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. It was found Ceph versions before 13.2.4 that authenticated ceph users with read only permissions could steal dm-crypt encryption keys used in ceph disk encryption.