CVE-2020-1716 (GCVE-0-2020-1716)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-05-28 12:46 – Updated: 2024-08-04 06:46
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Summary
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.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Assigner
redhat CNA under the redhat root
CNA scorecard B 82/100 over 1211 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a ceph-ansible Affected: ceph-ansible 6.0.0alpha1
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