Vulnerability · Published May 28, 2021 · Assigned by redhat

CVE-2020-1716

High 8.8

In plain English

A high-severity hard-coded credentials in ceph-ansible. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.3% (higher than 70% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)8.8High

Exploit odds (30 days)1.3%top 30.1% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A flaw was found in the ceph-ansible playbook where it contained hardcoded passwords that were being used as default passwords while deploying Ceph services. Any authenticated attacker can abuse this flaw to brute-force Ceph deployments, and gain administrator access to Ceph clusters via the Ceph dashboard to initiate read, write, and delete Ceph clusters and also modify Ceph cluster configurations. Versions before ceph-ansible 6.0.0alpha1 are affected.

Affected packages & fixed versions

Ecosystem	Package	Fixed in	Advisory
Rocky Linux:8	smartmontools	1:7.1-1.el8	RLSA-2020:2231

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	ceph-ansible	ceph-ansible 6.0.0alpha1

Weakness: CWE-798

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1795592 x_refsource_MISC