ceph-deploy before 1.5.23 uses weak permissions (644) for ceph/ceph.client.admin.keyring, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the file.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - ceph-deploy before 1.5.23 uses weak permissions (644) for ceph/ceph.client.admin.keyring, which allows
    local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the file. (CVE-2015-3010)

An updated ceph-deploy package that fixes two security issues is now available for Red Hat Ceph Storage.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

Red Hat Ceph Storage is a massively scalable, open, software-defined storage platform that combines the most stable version of Ceph with a Ceph management platform, deployment tools, and support services.

It was discovered that ceph-deploy, a utility for deploying Red Hat Ceph Storage, would create the keyring file with world readable permissions, which could possibly allow a local user to obtain authentication credentials from the keyring file. (CVE-2015-3010, CVE-2015-4053)

All ceph-deploy users are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which contains backported patches to correct these issues.

Update to ceph-deploy 1.5.23. This fixes CVE-2015-3010 (keyring permissions are world readable in ~ceph). See [upstream changelog](http://ceph.com/ceph-deploy/docs/changelog.html) for detailed changes.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
432971	SCA: security update for ceph-deploy (GHSA-9w4f-3v37-6f75)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	Local	low
432971	SCA: security update for ceph-deploy (GHSA-9w4f-3v37-6f75)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	Local	low
84189	RHEL 6 / 7 : ceph-deploy (RHSA-2015:1092)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	Local	low
82974	Fedora 21 : ceph-deploy-1.5.23-1.fc21 (2015-5981)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	low
82972	Fedora 22 : ceph-deploy-1.5.23-1.fc22 (2015-5953)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	low

Detections

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CVE-2015-3010

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Tenable Plugins

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