# CVE-2021-3509: A flaw was found in Red Hat Ceph Storage 4, in the Dashboard component.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2021-05-26 · Updated: 2024-08-03

## Affected

- n/a ceph-dashboard: as shipped in Red Hat Ceph Storage 4

## Description

A flaw was found in Red Hat Ceph Storage 4, in the Dashboard component. In response to CVE-2020-27839, the JWT token was moved from localStorage to an httpOnly cookie. However, token cookies are used in the body of the HTTP response for the documentation, which again makes it available to XSS.The greatest threat to the system is for confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a ceph-dashboard, 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=1950116
- https://github.com/ceph/ceph/blob/f1557e8f62d31883d3d34ae241a1a26af11d923f/src/pybind/mgr/dashboard/controllers/docs.py#L394-L409
- https://github.com/ceph/ceph/commit/adda853e64bdba1288d46bc7d462d23d8f2f10ca
- https://github.com/ceph/ceph/commit/7a1ca8d372da3b6a4fc3d221a0e5f72d1d61c27b
- https://github.com/ceph/ceph/commit/af3fffab3b0f13057134d96e5d481e400d8bfd27

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