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CVE-2017-16818

• 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: 2017-12-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-617

Description

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) privileges to post an invalid profile to the admin API, related to rgw/rgw_iam_policy.cc, rgw/rgw_basic_types.h, and rgw/rgw_iam_types.h.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 27
• ceph: from 12.1.0 through 12.2.1

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1515872
• https://github.com/ceph/ceph/commit/b3118cabb8060a8cc6a01c4e8264cb18e7b1745a
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/U6VJA32U7HKGDRJQDJVM7JBYWD4T7BJL/
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1515872
• https://github.com/ceph/ceph/commit/b3118cabb8060a8cc6a01c4e8264cb18e7b1745a
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/U6VJA32U7HKGDRJQDJVM7JBYWD4T7BJL/

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