Security Bulletin: IBM Storage Ceph is vulnerable to Prototype Pollution in Ramda [CVE-2021-42581]

Summary

Ramda is used by IBM Storage Ceph as part of the dashboard and in assorted other locations. [CVE-2021-42581] This bulletin identifies the steps to take to address the vulnerability in Ramda.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2021-42581
**DESCRIPTION:**Ramda could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a prototype pollution in the mapObjIndexed function. By supplying a specially-crafted object using the proto argument, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/226072 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now.
Download the latest version of Ceph and upgrade to 6.1 by following instructions.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None