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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-3509

A flaw was found in Red Hat Ceph Storage 4, in the Dashboard component. In response to CVE-2020-27839, the JWT token was moved from localStorage to an httpOnly cookie. However, token cookies are used in the body of the HTTP response for the documentation, which again makes it available to XSS.The greatest threat to the system is for confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

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31 Oct 2026, 11:49 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2021-3509

core-osv · Original source

Published 27 May 2021, 00:15 UTC

A flaw was found in Red Hat Ceph Storage 4, in the Dashboard component. In response to CVE-2020-27839, the JWT token was moved from localStorage to an httpOnly cookie. However, token cookies are used in the body of the HTTP response for the documentation, which again makes it available to XSS.The greatest threat to the system is for confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

osv:CVE-2021-3509
Complete source record
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    "summary": "A flaw was found in Red Hat Ceph Storage 4, in the Dashboard component. In response to CVE-2020-27839, the JWT token was moved from localStorage to an httpOnly cookie. However, token cookies are used in the body of the HTTP response for the documentation, which again makes it available to XSS.The greatest threat to the system is for confidentiality, integrity, and availability.",
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        "https://github.com/ceph/ceph/commit/7a1ca8d372da3b6a4fc3d221a0e5f72d1d61c27b",
        "https://github.com/ceph/ceph/commit/adda853e64bdba1288d46bc7d462d23d8f2f10ca",
        "https://github.com/ceph/ceph/commit/af3fffab3b0f13057134d96e5d481e400d8bfd27",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
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