medium6.5
CVE-2021-3979
A key length flaw was found in Red Hat Ceph Storage.
Impact
A key length flaw was found in Red Hat Ceph Storage. An attacker can exploit the fact that the key length is incorrectly passed in an encryption algorithm to create a non random key, which is weaker and can be exploited for loss of confidentiality and integrity on encrypted disks.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Redhat | Ceph Storage | Versions 3.0, 4.3, 5.1, 4.0, 5.0 |
| Redhat | Openshift Container Storage | Version 4.0 |
| Redhat | Openshift Data Foundation | Version 4.0 |
| Redhat | Openstack Platform | Version 13.0 |
| Redhat | Ceph Storage For Ibm Z Systems | Version 4.0 |
| Redhat | Ceph Storage For Power | Version 4.0 |
| Fedoraproject | Fedora | Versions 35, 37 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3979
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2024788
- https://github.com/ceph/ceph/commit/47c33179f9a15ae95cc1579a421be89378602656
- https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/44765
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00034.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BPOK44BESMIFW6BIOGCN452AKKOIIT6Q/
- https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/54006
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3979
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2024788
- https://github.com/ceph/ceph/commit/47c33179f9a15ae95cc1579a421be89378602656
- https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/44765
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00034.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/09/msg00025.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BPOK44BESMIFW6BIOGCN452AKKOIIT6Q/
- https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/54006