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Security Bulletin: IBM Storage Ceph is vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Grafana (CVE-2023-47108)

Security Bulletin


Summary

Grafana is used by IBM Storage Ceph as a metrics dashboard. This bulletin identifies the steps to take to address the vulnerability in Grafana. CVE-2023-47108

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2023-47108
DESCRIPTION:   OpenTelemetry-Go Contrib is a collection of third-party packages for OpenTelemetry-Go. Prior to version 0.46.0, the grpc Unary Server Interceptor out of the box adds labels `net.peer.sock.addr` and `net.peer.sock.port` that have unbound cardinality. It leads to the server's potential memory exhaustion when many malicious requests are sent. An attacker can easily flood the peer address and port for requests. Version 0.46.0 contains a fix for this issue. As a workaround to stop being affected, a view removing the attributes can be used. The other possibility is to disable grpc metrics instrumentation by passing `otelgrpc.WithMeterProvider` option with `noop.NewMeterProvider`.
CWE:   CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
CVSS Source:   IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score:   7.5
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM Storage Ceph

8.0z0-z5

IBM Storage Ceph7.1z0-z4
IBM Storage Ceph6.1z0-z9, 6.0

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now.
Download the latest version of IBM Storage Ceph and upgrade to 8.1 by following instructions.

https://public.dhe.ibm.com/ibmdl/export/pub/storage/ceph/
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-ceph/8.1.0?topic=upgrading

Workarounds and Mitigations

none

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References

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Review this information as needed, and upgrade IBM Storage Ceph if possible

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-47108

Acknowledgement

Change History

07 Jul 2025: Initial Publication

*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
07 July 2025

Initial Publish date:
07 July 2025

UID

ibm17239024