CVE-2016-8626

Publication date 28 October 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

A flaw was found in Red Hat Ceph before 0.94.9-8. The way Ceph Object Gateway handles POST object requests permits an authenticated attacker to launch a denial of service attack by sending null or specially crafted POST object requests.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
ceph	17.04 zesty	Not affected
	16.10 yakkety	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 0.80.11-0ubuntu1.14.04.3
	12.04 LTS precise	Ignored end of life

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
ceph	Upstream: 5462ad5

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 6.5 · Medium

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5 · Medium
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3452-1
Ceph vulnerabilities
11 October 2017

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-8626