CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 6.5. Exploitation may require the attacker to be authenticated. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.
CVE
CVE-2020-1700
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6.5
EPSS
2.49%
Original NVD Description
A flaw was found in the way the Ceph RGW Beast front-end handles unexpected disconnects. An authenticated attacker can abuse this flaw by making multiple disconnect attempts resulting in a permanent leak of a socket connection by radosgw. This flaw could lead to a denial of service condition by pile up of CLOSE_WAIT sockets, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources, preventing legitimate users from connecting to the system.
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