Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in Ceph affects PowerKVM (CVE-2015-5245)

Summary

PowerKVM is affected by a vulnerability in Ceph. IBM has now addressed this vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2015-5245**
DESCRIPTION:** Ceph Object Gateway is vulnerable to CRLF injection, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input. By using a specially-crafted bucket name containing CRLF character sequences, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to conduct various attacks against the vulnerable system, including cookie manipulation and external browser redirects.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/108549 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

PowerKVM 2.1

Remediation/Fixes

Customers can update PowerKVM systems by using “yum update”.

See https://ibm.biz/BdEnT8. This issue is addressed as of PowerKVM 2.1.1.3-65 update 13 or later. Customers running v2.1 are, in any case, encouraged to upgrade to v3.1.

For v2.1 systems currently running fix levels of PowerKVM prior to 2.1.1, please see <http://download4.boulder.ibm.com/sar/CMA/OSA/05e4c/0/README&gt; for prerequisite fixes and instructions.