Security Bulletin: IBM Storage Ceph is vulnerable to uncontrolled recursion in Golang (CVE-2022-30630)

Summary

Golang is used by IBM Storage Ceph as part of RGW and in assorted other locations. CVE-2022-30630

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-30630
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an uncontrolled recursion flaw in Glob in io/fs due to stack exhaustion. By sending a specially-crafted request using a path which contains a large number of path separators, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a panic.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/233143 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 6.1 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