Vulnerability Details : 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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2020-1716
Probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days: 0.10%
Percentile, the proportion of vulnerabilities that are scored at or less: ~ 41 % EPSS Score History EPSS FAQ
CVSS scores for CVE-2020-1716
| Base Score | Base Severity | CVSS Vector | Exploitability Score | Impact Score | Score Source |
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9.0
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HIGH | AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C |
8.0
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10.0
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NIST |
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8.8
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HIGH | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
2.8
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5.9
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NIST |
CWE ids for CVE-2020-1716
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The product contains hard-coded credentials, such as a password or cryptographic key, which it uses for its own inbound authentication, outbound communication to external components, or encryption of internal data.Assigned by: secalert@redhat.com (Primary)
References for CVE-2020-1716
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1795592
1795592 – (CVE-2020-1716) CVE-2020-1716 ceph-ansible: hard coded credential in ceph-ansible playbookExploit;Issue Tracking;Vendor Advisory
Products affected by CVE-2020-1716
- cpe:2.3:a:ceph:ceph-ansible:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*