Security Bulletin: IBM Storage Ceph is vulnerable to authentication bypass by spoofing in Grafana (CVE-2022-35957)

Summary

Grafana is used by IBM Storage Ceph as part of the dashboard to monitor the stats for each cluster. CVE-2022-35957

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-35957
**DESCRIPTION:**Grafana could allow a remote authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take over the server admin account and gain full control of the Grafana instance.
CVSS Base score: 6.6
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/236783 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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 6.1 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