Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-27839  

A security issue was found in ceph in versions prior to 15.2.9. The JWT token used by the ceph dashboard for authorising against the API was stored inside the local storage of the browser, making it vulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks. Ceph version 15.2.9 mitigates this issue by using secure cookies for storage instead.

Severity Medium

Remote Yes

Type Cross-site scripting

Description

A security issue was found in ceph in versions prior to 15.2.9. The JWT token used by the ceph dashboard for authorising against the API was stored inside the local storage of the browser, making it vulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks. Ceph version 15.2.9 mitigates this issue by using secure cookies for storage instead.

AVG-1421 ceph 15.2.8-2 Medium Vulnerable FS#70062

https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/44591
https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/38259
https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/39120
https://github.com/ceph/ceph/commit/67edff73234732e69b145d5270d744c3fb8168ab