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 Nautilus. This flaw allows an attacker with access to the Ceph cluster network to authenticate with the Ceph service via a packet sniffer and perform actions allowed by the Ceph service. This issue is a reintroduction of CVE-2018-1128, affecting the msgr2 protocol. The msgr 2 protocol is used for all communication except older clients that do not support the msgr2 protocol. The msgr1 protocol is not affected. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, and system availability.
A capture-replay flaw exists when the design of the product makes it possible for a malicious user to sniff network traffic and bypass authentication by replaying it to the server in question to the same effect as the original message (or with minor changes).
| Link | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1890354 | third party advisory issue tracking |
| https://ceph.io/community/v15-2-6-octopus-released/ | release notes vendor advisory |
| https://ceph.io/releases/v14-2-14-nautilus-released/ | release notes vendor advisory |
| https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UBC4KZ44QUQENTYZPVHORGL4K2KV5V4F/ | vendor advisory |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-39 | third party advisory vendor advisory |