CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-1716

8.8 HIGH Published 2021-05-28 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-05-28
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
9.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-798

Description

A flaw was found in the ceph-ansible playbook where it contained hardcoded passwords that were being used as default passwords while deploying Ceph services. Any authenticated attacker can abuse this flaw to brute-force Ceph deployments, and gain administrator access to Ceph clusters via the Ceph dashboard to initiate read, write, and delete Ceph clusters and also modify Ceph cluster configurations. Versions before ceph-ansible 6.0.0alpha1 are affected.

Affected configurations

• ceph ceph-ansible (<= 5.0.3)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-798 Use of Hard-coded Credentials weakness

References