Ceph Object Gateway Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVE-2016-9579 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

A flaw was found in the way Ceph Object Gateway would process cross-origin HTTP requests if the CORS policy was set to allow origin on a bucket. A remote unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to cause denial of service by sending a specially-crafted cross-origin HTTP request. Ceph branches 1.3.x and 2.x are affected.

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