Security Bulletin: IBM Storage Ceph is vulnerable to Improper Synchronization in Grafana (CVE-2023-2801)

Summary

Grafana is used by IBM Storage Ceph as a monitoring dashboard. CVE-2023-2801 This bulletin identifies the steps to take to address the vulnerability in Grafana.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-2801
**DESCRIPTION:**Grafana is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a proxy race condition. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to crash Grafana instances.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/257435 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now.
Download the latest version of IBM Storage Ceph and upgrade to 6.1z3 by following instructions.

<https://public.dhe.ibm.com/ibmdl/export/pub/storage/ceph/&gt;
<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-ceph/6?topic=upgrading&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None