What is CVE-2020-1716?

CVE-2020-1716 is a high-severity vulnerability in Ceph Ceph-Ansible, classified under Use of Hard-coded Credentials. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2021-05-28.

How severe is CVE-2020-1716?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Ceph Ceph-Ansible

CVE-2020-1716

A flaw was found in the ceph-ansible playbook where it contained hardcoded passwords that were being used as default passwords while deploying Ceph services. Any authenticated attacker can abuse this flaw to brute-force Ceph deployments, and gain administrator access to Ceph clusters via the Ceph dashboard to initiate read, write, and delete Ceph clusters and also modify Ceph cluster configurations. Versions before ceph-ansible 6.0.0alpha1 are affected.

EPSS: 0.013 (66.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Ceph Ceph-ansible
N/a Ceph-ansible — versions ceph-ansible 6.0.0alpha1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-798 — Use of Hard-coded Credentials

References

secalert@redhat.com (Exploit, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-1716?: CVE-2020-1716 is a high-severity vulnerability in Ceph Ceph-Ansible, classified under Use of Hard-coded Credentials. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2021-05-28.
How severe is CVE-2020-1716?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.