CVE-2021-3979

Description

A key length flaw was found in Red Hat Ceph Storage. An attacker can exploit the fact that the key length is incorrectly passed in an encryption algorithm to create a non random key, which is weaker and can be exploited for loss of confidentiality and integrity on encrypted disks.

References

https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/54006

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BPOK44BESMIFW6BIOGCN452AKKOIIT6Q/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00034.html

https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/44765

https://github.com/ceph/ceph/commit/47c33179f9a15ae95cc1579a421be89378602656

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2024788

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3979

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3