CVE-2016-8626 in Ceph

Summary

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.

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• Reservation: 10/12/2016
• Disclosure: 07/31/2018
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-122338
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-20 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 5.4
• EPSS: 0.02873
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-8626
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-8626
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2016-8626/