CVE-2018-14649

highpriority · track · 43EPSS 0.120 · 96 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

12.0% (96th) EPSS

CVSS 10 · high

Is it mine?

7 products

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Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

It was found that ceph-isci-cli package as shipped by Red Hat Ceph Storage 2 and 3 is using python-werkzeug in debug shell mode. This is done by setting debug=True in file /usr/bin/rbd-target-api provided by ceph-isci-cli package. This allows unauthenticated attackers to access this debug shell and escalate privileges. Once an attacker has successfully connected to this debug shell they will be able to execute arbitrary commands remotely. These commands will run with the same privileges as of user executing the application which is using python-werkzeug with debug shell mode enabled. In - Red Hat Ceph Storage 2 and 3, ceph-isci-cli package runs python-werkzeug library with root level permissions.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

10.0

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · high–critical · 9–10

v2.010highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 10

v3.09.8criticalCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 5.9

v3.09.8criticalCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.09.8criticalCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · secalert@redhat.com USexploitability 3.9 · impact 5.9

v3.09criticalCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-77US

affected products (7)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

[UNKNOWN] ceph-iscsi-cli≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
redhat ceph storage= 2.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:ceph_storage:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat ceph storage= 3.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:ceph_storage:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat ceph-iscsi-cliall versionsnvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:ceph-iscsi-cli:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat enterprise linux desktop= 7.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat enterprise linux server= 7.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat enterprise linux workstation= 7.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (3)

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sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2018-10-09modified 2026-06-17

references (23)

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