What is CVE-2019-3821?

CVE-2019-3821 is a high-severity vulnerability in Ceph Civetweb, classified under Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2019-03-27.

How severe is CVE-2019-3821?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Ceph Civetweb

CVE-2019-3821

A flaw was found in the way civetweb frontend was handling requests for ceph RGW server with SSL enabled. An unauthenticated attacker could create multiple connections to ceph RADOS gateway to exhaust file descriptors for ceph-radosgw service resulting in a remote denial of service.

EPSS: 0.029 (85.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Ceph Civetweb
[Unknown] Ceph — versions n/a
Canonical Ubuntu_linux — versions 16.04, 18.10, 19.04

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

References

secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_UBUNTU, vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
secalert@redhat.com (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-3821?: CVE-2019-3821 is a high-severity vulnerability in Ceph Civetweb, classified under Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2019-03-27.
How severe is CVE-2019-3821?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.