CVE-2021-3524: HTTP header injects via CORS in RGW

NIST information page

A flaw was found in the radosgw. The vulnerability is related to the injection of HTTP headers via a CORS ExposeHeader tag. The r character in the ExposeHeader tag in the CORS configuration file generates a header injection in the response when the CORS request is made.

Fixed versions

Pacific v16.2.4 (and later)
Octopus v15.2.12 (and later)
Nautilus v14.2.21 (and later)

Recommendations

All users of Ceph object storage (RGW) should upgrade.

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Sergey Bobrov (Kaspersky) for reporting this issue.

Brought to you by the Ceph Foundation

The Ceph Documentation is a community resource funded and hosted by the non-profit Ceph Foundation. If you would like to support this and our other efforts, please consider joining now.