What is CVE-2017-16818?

CVE-2017-16818 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, classified under Reachable Assertion. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-12-20.

How severe is CVE-2017-16818?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora

CVE-2017-16818

RADOS Gateway in Ceph 12.1.0 through 12.2.1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application exit) by leveraging "full" (not necessarily admin) privileges to post an invalid profile to the a…

EPSS: 0.006 (69.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 27
Redhat Ceph
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-617 — Reachable Assertion

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-16818?: CVE-2017-16818 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, classified under Reachable Assertion. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-12-20.
How severe is CVE-2017-16818?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.