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CVE-2021-3524
- Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2021-05-17 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-20
Description
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 newline character in the ExposeHeader tag in the CORS configuration file generates a header injection in the response when the CORS request is made. In addition, the prior bug fix for CVE-2020-10753 did not account for the use of \r as a header separator, thus a new flaw has been created.
Affected products
- Debian Linux: 9.0
- Fedoraproject Fedora: 32, 33, 34
- ceph: before 14.2.21 — fixed in 14.2.21
- Red Hat Ceph Storage: 4.0
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: ceph 14.2.21. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1951674
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/08/msg00013.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00034.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FX5ZHI5L7FOHXOSEV3TYBAL66DMLJ7V5/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LPCJN2YDZCBMF4FOJXSTAADKFGEQEO7O/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZRUNDH2TJRZRWL3DCH2PQ6KROWTPQ7AJ/
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1951674
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/08/msg00013.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00034.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FX5ZHI5L7FOHXOSEV3TYBAL66DMLJ7V5/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LPCJN2YDZCBMF4FOJXSTAADKFGEQEO7O/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZRUNDH2TJRZRWL3DCH2PQ6KROWTPQ7AJ/
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