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low 2.6

CVE-2023-46159 json

IBM Storage Ceph denial of service

published 2024-02-02 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2023-50402

cvss
2.6
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.8%
EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 57%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

IBM Storage Ceph 5.3z1, 5.3z5, and 6.1z1 could allow an authenticated user on the network to cause a denial of service from RGW. IBM X-Force ID: 268906.

Patch / fix

  • ceph ceph storage 8.1 2:19.2.1-222.el9cp
  • cephadm ceph storage 8.1 2:19.2.1-222.el9cp
  • liboath ceph storage 8.1 2.6.12-1.el9cp
  • librbd1 ceph storage 8.1 2:19.2.1-222.el9cp
  • librgw2 ceph storage 8.1 2:19.2.1-222.el9cp
  • rbd-nbd ceph storage 8.1 2:19.2.1-222.el9cp
  • ceph-mib ceph storage 8.1 2:19.2.1-222.el9cp
  • ceph-base ceph storage 8.1 2:19.2.1-222.el9cp

red hat advisories RHSA-2025:9775RHSA-2024:0745RHSA-2023:5693

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2023-46159 updated cvss 2.6

ceph: RGW crash upon misconfigured CORS rule

  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 5.3 Tools haproxy 2.2.19-5.el8cp, haproxy22 2.2.19-5.el8cp
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:0745
  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 6.1 Tools ceph 17.2.6-148.el9cp, cephadm 17.2.6-148.el9cp, librbd1 17.2.6-148.el9cp, librgw2 17.2.6-148.el9cp, rbd-nbd 17.2.6-148.el9cp, ceph-mib 17.2.6-148.el9cp, +17 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:5693
  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 7.1 rhceph/rhceph-7-rhel9 1791452477
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:83548
  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 8.1 Tools liboath 2.6.12-1.el9cp, oath-toolkit 2.6.12-1.el9cp
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2025:9775
  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 9.2 rhceph/rhceph-9-rhel10 1790843527
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:86618
  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 3 ceph, librbd1, librgw2, ceph-mds, ceph-mgr, ceph-mon, +15 more Red Hat Ceph Storage 4 ceph, librbd1, librgw2, rbd-nbd, ceph-mds, ceph-mgr, +27 more Red Hat Ceph Storage 5.3 MON ceph 16.2.10-248.el8cp, cephadm 16.2.10-248.el8cp, librbd1 16.2.10-248.el8cp, librgw2 16.2.10-248.el8cp, ceph-mgr 16.2.10-248.el8cp, ceph-mon 16.2.10-248.el8cp, +22 more Red Hat Ceph Storage 5.3 OSD ceph 16.2.10-248.el8cp, librbd1 16.2.10-248.el8cp, librgw2 16.2.10-248.el8cp, ceph-osd 16.2.10-248.el8cp, ceph-base 16.2.10-248.el8cp, ceph-test 16.2.10-248.el8cp, +12 more Red Hat Ceph Storage 5.3 Tools ceph 16.2.10-248.el8cp, ceph 16.2.10-248.el9cp, cephadm 16.2.10-248.el8cp, cephadm 16.2.10-248.el9cp, librbd1 16.2.10-248.el8cp, librbd1 16.2.10-248.el9cp, +44 more Red Hat Ceph Storage 7.1 rhceph/grafana-rhel9 1791450715, rhceph/keepalived-rhel9 1791453133, rhceph/snmp-notifier-rhel9 1791450035, rhceph/rhceph-haproxy-rhel9 1791452229, rhceph/rhceph-promtail-rhel9 1791451373
    +7 more products
    Red Hat Ceph Storage 8.1 Tools ceph 19.2.1-222.el9cp, cephadm 19.2.1-222.el9cp, librbd1 19.2.1-222.el9cp, librgw2 19.2.1-222.el9cp, rbd-nbd 19.2.1-222.el9cp, ceph-mib 19.2.1-222.el9cp, +18 more Red Hat Ceph Storage 9.2 rhceph/alloy-rhel10 1790774976, rhceph/grafana-rhel10 1790774121, rhceph/keepalived-rhel10 1790842990, rhceph/oauth2-proxy-rhel10 1790774021, rhceph/snmp-notifier-rhel10 1790773439, rhceph/rhceph-haproxy-rhel10 1790846345 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 librbd1, librados2, libcephfs2, libradosstriper1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 librbd1, librados2 Red Hat Openshift Container Storage 4 ceph Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4 ceph Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) librbd1, librgw2, ceph-fuse, librados2, libcephfs2, python-rbd, +6 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.81% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 57% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 2.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
NVD 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • IBM Storage Ceph

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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