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CVE-2020-1716 json

A flaw was found in the ceph-ansible playbook where it contained hardcoded passwords that were being used as default passwords while deploy…

published 5y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2020-12570

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.3%
EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 69%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A flaw was found in the ceph-ansible playbook where it contained hardcoded passwords that were being used as default passwords while deploying Ceph services. Any authenticated attacker can abuse this flaw to brute-force Ceph deployments, and gain administrator access to Ceph clusters via the Ceph dashboard to initiate read, write, and delete Ceph clusters and also modify Ceph cluster configurations. Versions before ceph-ansible 6.0.0alpha1 are affected.

Patch / fix

  • ceph-ansible ceph storage 4 4.0.23-1.el7cp
  • ceph-ansible ceph storage 4 4.0.23-1.el8cp

red hat advisories RHSA-2020:2231

  • smartmontools Rocky Linux 8 1:7.1-1.el8

rocky linux advisories RLSA-2020:2231

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2020-1716 updated cvss 8.8

ceph-ansible: hard coded credential in ceph-ansible playbook

  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 15 (Stein) ceph-ansible
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 4.1 Tools ceph-ansible 4.0.23-1.el7cp, ceph-ansible 4.0.23-1.el8cp
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:2231
  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 2 ceph-ansible Red Hat Ceph Storage 3 ceph-ansible Red Hat Ceph Storage 4.1 MON ceph 14.2.8-50.el7cp, ceph 14.2.8-59.el8cp, librbd1 14.2.8-50.el7cp, librbd1 14.2.8-59.el8cp, librgw2 14.2.8-50.el7cp, librgw2 14.2.8-59.el8cp, +50 more Red Hat Ceph Storage 4.1 OSD ceph 14.2.8-50.el7cp, ceph 14.2.8-59.el8cp, librbd1 14.2.8-50.el7cp, librbd1 14.2.8-59.el8cp, librgw2 14.2.8-50.el7cp, librgw2 14.2.8-59.el8cp, +51 more Red Hat Ceph Storage 4.1 Tools s3cmd 2.0.2-1.el7cp, s3cmd 2.0.2-1.el8cp, ceph 14.2.8-50.el7cp, ceph 14.2.8-59.el8cp, librbd1 14.2.8-50.el7cp, librbd1 14.2.8-59.el8cp, +79 more Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) ceph-ansible
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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Exploit prediction

1.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 69% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • bugzilla.redhat.com https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1795592 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 9.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

  • n/a ceph-ansible

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-798 Use of Hard-coded Credentials

References

Sources

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