Security Bulletin: IBM Storage Ceph is vulnerable to a HTTP Request Smuggling vulnerablity in Golang (CVE-2022-1705)

Summary

Golang is used by IBM Storage Ceph as part of RGW and in assorted other locations. CVE-2022-1705

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-1705
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling, caused by a flaw with accepting of some invalid Transfer-Encoding headers in the HTTP/1 client in net/http. By sending a specially-crafted HTTP(S) transfer-encoding request header, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to poison the web cache, bypass web application firewall protection, and conduct XSS attacks.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/233258 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Update Affected Products list to remove “Ceph - All” because the VIT was closed with Result Invalid reason

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now.
Download the latest version of Ceph and upgrade to 6.1 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