Medium
Security advisory
RADOS Gateway in Ceph 12.1.0 through 12.2.1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application exit) by leveraging "full" (not necessarily admin) privileges to post an invalid profile to the admin API, related to rgw/rgw_iam_policy.cc, rgw/rgw_basic_types.h, and rgw/rgw_iam_types.h.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-16818
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 12:12 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
RADOS Gateway in Ceph 12.1.0 through 12.2.1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application exit) by leveraging "full" (not necessarily admin) privileges to post an invalid profile to the admin API, related to rgw/rgw_iam_policy.cc, rgw/rgw_basic_types.h, and rgw/rgw_iam_types.h.
osv:CVE-2017-16818
Complete source record
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