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CVE-2021-3524

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-3524 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting Red Hat Ceph Storage RadosGW versions prior to 14.2.21, as well as Debian and Fedora Project distributions. It involves an HTTP header injection flaw due to improper handling of newline characters in the CORS ExposeHeader tag, allowing an attacker to inject arbitrary headers into responses. The CVSS score is 6.5, indicating a network-based attack with low complexity, requiring no privileges, and leading to high integrity impact without affecting confidentiality or availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 14.2.21CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ceph:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ceph_storage:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
32CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:32:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
33CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
34CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.61%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
73.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0161 is in the 86th percentile among its peer group of 26,221 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 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 (5)

redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ceph Storage 4.3Fixed in: ceph-2:14.2.22-110.el8cp
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ceph Storage 5.1Fixed in: ceph-2:16.2.7-98.el8cp
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Openshift Container Storage 4Fixed in: ceph
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens)Fixed in: ceph

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2021-3524Moderate

gateway: radosgw: CRLF injection

Apr 15, 2021

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2021/08/msg00013.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00034.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FX5ZHI5L7FOHXOSEV3TYBAL66DMLJ7V5
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LPCJN2YDZCBMF4FOJXSTAADKFGEQEO7O
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZRUNDH2TJRZRWL3DCH2PQ6KROWTPQ7AJ