{
  "threat_severity" : "Important",
  "public_date" : "2019-01-22T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "ceph-ansible: hard coded credential in ceph-ansible playbook",
    "id" : "1795592",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1795592"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "8.8",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-798",
  "details" : [ "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.", "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." ],
  "statement" : "The version of ceph-ansible included in Red Hat OpenStack 15 was temporary, OpenStack 15 installations will consume updates to this package from Ceph channels.",
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank Sarthak Srivastava for reporting this issue.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Ceph Storage 4.1",
    "release_date" : "2020-05-19T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2020:2231",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:ceph_storage:4::el7",
    "package" : "ceph-ansible-0:4.0.23-1.el8cp",
    "impact" : "moderate"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Ceph Storage 2",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "ceph-ansible",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:ceph_storage:2"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Ceph Storage 3",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "ceph-ansible",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:ceph_storage:3"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens)",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "ceph-ansible",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:openstack:13"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat OpenStack Platform 15 (Stein)",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "ceph-ansible",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:openstack:15"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-1716\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-1716" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2020-1716",
  "mitigation" : {
    "value" : "Change and use strong passwords in ceph-ansible playbook\n- https://github.com/ceph/ceph-ansible/blob/v4.0.14/roles/ceph-defaults/defaults/main.yml#L701\n- https://github.com/ceph/ceph-ansible/blob/v4.0.14/roles/ceph-defaults/defaults/main.yml#L711",
    "lang" : "en:us"
  },
  "csaw" : false
}