CVE-2020-1700

Medium

Description

A flaw was found in the way the Ceph RGW Beast front-end handles unexpected disconnects. An authenticated attacker can abuse this flaw by making multiple disconnect attempts resulting in a permanent leak of a socket connection by radosgw. This flaw could lead to a denial of service condition by pile up of CLOSE_WAIT sockets, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources, preventing legitimate users from connecting to the system.

SeverityMedium
CVSS6.5
Exploit probability—
ProductCeph
PublishedFeb 7, 2020
First seenFeb 7, 2020

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Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
ceph cephNo range specified—
redhat openshift_container_storage4.2—
opensuse leap15.1—
canonical ubuntu_linux18.04, 19.10—

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