high7.5
CVE-2019-3821
A flaw was found in the way civetweb frontend was handling requests for ceph RGW server with SSL enabled.
Impact
A flaw was found in the way civetweb frontend was handling requests for ceph RGW server with SSL enabled. An unauthenticated attacker could create multiple connections to ceph RADOS gateway to exhaust file descriptors for ceph-radosgw service resulting in a remote denial of service.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ceph | Civetweb | before 1.11 |
| Canonical | Ubuntu Linux | Versions 16.04, 18.10, 19.04 |