CVE-2020-25660: High severity ceph vulnerability

A flaw was found in the Cephx authentication protocol, where it does not verify Ceph clients correctly and is then vulnerable to replay attacks in Nautilus. This flaw allows an attacker with access to the Ceph cluster network to authenticate with the Ceph service via a packet sniffer and perform actions allowed by the Ceph service. This issue is a reintroduction of CVE-2018-1128, affecting the msgr2 protocol. The msgr 2 protocol is used for all communication except older clients that do not support the msgr2 protocol. The msgr1 protocol is not affected. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, and system availability.

Ceph octopus lost CEPHXV2 replay attack, and this was backported to nautilus in v14.2.5.This is very similar to a prior CVE, but we are requesting a new CVE because it only affects nautilus and later.

This flaw is very similar to CVE-2018-1128: It was found that cephx authentication protocol did not verify ceph clients correctly and was vulnerable to replay attack. Any attacker having access to ceph cluster network who is able to sniff packets on network can use this vulnerability to authenticate with ceph service and perform actions allowed by ceph service.

— Red Hat