Improper Authorization The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libcephfs-devel  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-LIBCEPHFSDEVEL-1327011
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed7 Jan 2019

Introduced: 7 Jan 2019

CVE-2018-14662  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-285  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libcephfs-devel package and not the libcephfs-devel package as distributed by RHEL.

It was found Ceph versions before 13.2.4 that authenticated ceph users with read only permissions could steal dm-crypt encryption keys used in ceph disk encryption.