Security Bulletin: IBM Storage Ceph is vulnerable to an Observable Discrepancy in the RHEL UBI (CVE-2024-0553)

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-2024-0553

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2024-0553
**DESCRIPTION:**GnuTLS could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information. By perform a timing side-channel attack in the RSA-PSK key exchange, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/279606 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now.
Download the latest version of IBM Storage Ceph and upgrade to 7.0z1 or later by following instructions.

<https://public.dhe.ibm.com/ibmdl/export/pub/storage/ceph/&gt;
<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-ceph/7?topic=upgrading&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None