CVE-2024-31884 — Improper Certificate Validation in Ceph
Severity
7.5HIGHOSV
No vectorEPSS
No EPSS data
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJan 20
Latest updateFeb 24
Description
pybind: Improper use of Pybind
A flaw was found in Ceph. An attacker can allow Ceph to accept any certificate because no certificate context is passed via Pybind to the constructors imaplib.IMAP4_SSL or smtplib.SMTP_SSL. As a result, pybind pybind does not check the server's X.509
certificate, instead accepting any certificate. This enables an attacker to commit a Man In the Middle (MITM) attack, compromising mail server credentials or mail contents
Mitigation: Mitigation for this issue is eit…