A flaw was found in Red Hat Ceph before 0.94.9-8.

Published 8 y ago 2018-07-31 · modified 4 mo ago 2026-06-17 · JSON

CVSS

6.5

v3.0 · CNA

CISA KEV

not known exploited

EPSS

2.3%

percentile 83%

Public exploits

none known

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.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

2.28% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 83% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned by	Version	Score	Vector
CNA	3.0	6.5	`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`
CNA	3.0	6.5	`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`
NVD	3.0	6.5	`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`
NVD	2.0	6.8	`AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C`

Affected products

Red Hat Ceph

Classification

Weakness

CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference
CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

tracker.ceph.com /issues/17635 · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred
rhn.redhat.com /errata/RHSA-2016-2815.html · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT, x_transferred
bugzilla.redhat.com /show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8626 · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred
securityfocus.com /bid/94488 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred
rhn.redhat.com /errata/RHSA-2016-2816.html · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT, x_transferred
rhn.redhat.com /errata/RHSA-2016-2847.html · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT, x_transferred
rhn.redhat.com /errata/RHSA-2016-2848.html · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT, x_transferred

Sources

CVE List: CVE-2016-8626
NVD: CVE-2016-8626

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