VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2021-3979

CVSS score6.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.57%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2022-08-25
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Description

A key length flaw was found in Red Hat Ceph Storage. An attacker can exploit the fact that the key length is incorrectly passed in an encryption algorithm to create a non random key, which is weaker and can be exploited for loss of confidentiality and integrity on encrypted disks.

Weakness classification

  • secalert@redhat.com: CWE-327
  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-287

Primary references