# CVE-2017-16818: RADOS Gateway in Ceph 12.1.0 through 12.2.1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and applicatio

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2017-12-20 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

RADOS Gateway in Ceph 12.1.0 through 12.2.1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application exit) by leveraging "full" (not necessarily admin) privileges to post an invalid profile to the admin API, related to rgw/rgw_iam_policy.cc, rgw/rgw_basic_types.h, and rgw/rgw_iam_types.h.

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## References

- https://github.com/ceph/ceph/commit/b3118cabb8060a8cc6a01c4e8264cb18e7b1745a
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1515872
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/U6VJA32U7HKGDRJQDJVM7JBYWD4T7BJL/

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