Security Bulletin: IBM Storage Ceph is vulnerable to Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in the RHEL UBI (CVE-2022-40898)

Summary

RHEL UBI is used by IBM Storage Ceph as the base operating system. This bulletin identifies the steps to take to address the vulnerability in the RHEL UBI. CVE-2022-40898.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-40898
**DESCRIPTION:**Python Packaging Authority (PyPA) Wheel is vulnerable to a denial of service. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using the WHEEL_INFO_RE regular expression to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/243027 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now.
Download the latest version of IBM Storage Ceph and upgrade to 6.1z3 or later on RHEL 9 by following instructions.

<https://public.dhe.ibm.com/ibmdl/export/pub/storage/ceph/&gt;
<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-ceph/6?topic=upgrading&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None