CVE-2017-16818

ceph: Failed assertion through user input in ceph_assert() function in rgw_iam_policy.cc

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.3

CVSS 3.0

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Published · October 10, 2017

Updated · May 13, 2026

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.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 5.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation