CVE-2016-9579

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    CVE-2016-9579

    Published: 1 Aug 2018Last Modified: 15 Mar 2026

    Summary:

    Details: A flaw was found in the way Ceph Object Gateway would process cross-origin HTTP requests if the CORS policy was set to allow origin on a bucket. A remote unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to cause denial of service by sending a specially-crafted cross-origin HTTP request. Ceph branches 1.3.x and 2.x are affected.

    References: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2994.html, http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2995.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94936, http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2954.html, http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2956.html, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9579, http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/18187

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    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
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    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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