Security Bulletin: IBM Storage Ceph is vulnerable to Incorrect privilege assignment in Golang (CVE-2022-29526)

Summary

Golang is used by IBM Storage Ceph as part of RGW and in assorted other locations. CVE-2022-29526

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-29526
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw in the Faccessat function when called with a non-zero flags parameter. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain accessible file information, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/229593 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

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