CVE-2016-8626

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-07-31 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-476

Description

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

ceph: before 0.94.3.9-8 — fixed in 0.94.3.9-8
RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 7.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 7.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 7.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: ceph 0.94.3.9-8. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2815.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2816.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2847.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2848.html
http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/17635
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94488
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8626
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2815.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2816.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2847.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2848.html
http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/17635

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