# CVE-2020-1700: A flaw was found in the way the Ceph RGW Beast front-end handles unexpected disconnects.

- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2020-02-07 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- \[UNKNOWN\] ceph: 14.2.4-125.el8cp, 14.2.4-51.el7cp

## Description

A flaw was found in the way the Ceph RGW Beast front-end handles unexpected disconnects. An authenticated attacker can abuse this flaw by making multiple disconnect attempts resulting in a permanent leak of a socket connection by radosgw. This flaw could lead to a denial of service condition by pile up of CLOSE_WAIT sockets, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources, preventing legitimate users from connecting to the system.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on \[UNKNOWN\] ceph, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1700
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-02/msg00009.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4304-1/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00034.html

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