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CVE-2018-16889

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-16889 describes a vulnerability in Ceph, including Red Hat Ceph versions up to v13.2.4, where encryption keys are not properly sanitized and are leaked in plaintext within debug log files when using v4 authentication. This high-severity vulnerability (CVSS 7.5) allows for unauthorized disclosure of sensitive information (C:H) without requiring user interaction or complex attack vectors (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N). Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 13.2.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ceph:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.54%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
42.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0054 is in the 19th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (9)

redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ceph Storage 3.3Fixed in: ceph-2:12.2.12-45.el7cp
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ceph Storage 3.3Fixed in: ceph-ansible-0:3.2.24-1.el7cp
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ceph Storage 3.3Fixed in: ceph-iscsi-config-0:2.6-19.el7cp
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ceph Storage 3.3Fixed in: cephmetrics-0:2.0.6-1.el7cp
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ceph Storage 3.3Fixed in: libntirpc-0:1.7.4-1.el7cp
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ceph Storage 3.3Fixed in: nfs-ganesha-0:2.7.4-10.el7cp
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ceph Storage 3.3Fixed in: python-crypto-0:2.6.1-16.el7ost
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ceph Storage 3 for UbuntuFixed in: ceph
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2018-16889Moderate

ceph: debug logging for v4 auth does not sanitize encryption keys

Jan 10, 2019

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2019:2538
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2019:2541
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
ExploitIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 4035-1
securityfocus.com / bid/106528
Third Party Advisory