CVE-2016-9579

Publication date 12 December 2016

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

A flaw was found in the way Ceph Object Gateway would process cross-origin HTTP requests if the CORS policy was set to allow origin on a bucket. A remote unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to cause denial of service by sending a specially-crafted cross-origin HTTP request. Ceph branches 1.3.x and 2.x are affected.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
ceph	17.04 zesty	Not affected
	16.10 yakkety	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 0.80.11-0ubuntu1.14.04.3
	12.04 LTS precise	Not affected

Notes

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xenial, zesty and artful already have the code fixed

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
ceph	Upstream: c0e845c Upstream: https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/12397 Upstream: https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/12398

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H