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Fencer Vulns
high 8.1

CVE-2018-10861 json

A flaw was found in the way ceph mon handles user requests.

published 2018-07-10 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-2928

cvss
8.1
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.2%
EPSS 3.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 88%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A flaw was found in the way ceph mon handles user requests. Any authenticated ceph user having read access to ceph can delete, create ceph storage pools and corrupt snapshot images. Ceph branches master, mimic, luminous and jewel are believed to be affected.

Patch / fix

  • ceph Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 12.2.8+dfsg1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2018-10861

  • ceph ceph storage 2 2:10.2.10-28.el7cp
  • librbd1 ceph storage 2 2:10.2.10-28.el7cp
  • librgw2 ceph storage 2 2:10.2.10-28.el7cp
  • ceph-mds ceph storage 2 2:10.2.10-28.el7cp
  • ceph-mon ceph storage 2 2:10.2.10-28.el7cp
  • ceph-osd ceph storage 2 2:10.2.10-28.el7cp
  • ceph-base ceph storage 2 2:10.2.10-28.el7cp
  • ceph-fuse ceph storage 2 2:10.2.10-28.el7cp

red hat advisories RHSA-2018:2261RHSA-2018:2177

  • ceph SLE Module for Basesystem 15 13.2.4.125+gad802694f5-3.7.2
  • ceph Enterprise Storage 4 10.2.11+git.1531487710.3a12911a2e-12.14.2
  • ceph-test Enterprise Storage 4 10.2.11+git.1531487710.3a12911a2e-12.14.2
  • ceph SLES 12 SP3, SLED 12 SP3, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP3 +1 more 12.2.7+git.1531910353.c0ef85b854-2.12.1
  • ceph Enterprise Storage 5 12.2.5+git.1530082629.8cbf63d997-2.16.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2019:0586-1SUSE-SU-2018:2299-1SUSE-SU-2018:2193-1SUSE-SU-2018:2478-1SUSE-SU-2018:1920-1

  • ceph openSUSE Leap 15.0 13.2.4.125+gad802694f5-lp150.2.3.1
  • ceph-test openSUSE Leap 15.0 13.2.4.125+gad802694f5-lp150.2.3.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2019:1284-1

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-2018-10861 updated cvss 4.6

ceph: ceph-mon does not perform authorization on OSD pool ops

  • Red Hat Ceph Storage ceph 12.2.4-30.el7cp, ceph 10.2.10-28.el7cp, librbd1 12.2.4-30.el7cp, librgw2 12.2.4-30.el7cp, ceph-mds 12.2.4-30.el7cp, ceph-mgr 12.2.4-30.el7cp, +41 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:2261
  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 2 for Ubuntu
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:2274
  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 3 for Ubuntu
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:2179
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 librbd1, librados2, python-rbd, ceph-common, python-rados Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 librbd1, librados2, libcephfs2, libradosstriper1
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 8.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • Red Hat, Inc. ceph

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.