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Security Bulletin: IBM Storage Ceph is vulnerable to Aymmetric Resource Consumption and Improper Handling of Exceptions in Grafana (CVE-2024-51744 CVE-2025-30204)

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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-2024-51744 CVE-2025-30204

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2024-51744
DESCRIPTION:   golang-jwt is a Go implementation of JSON Web Tokens. Unclear documentation of the error behavior in `ParseWithClaims` can lead to situation where users are potentially not checking errors in the way they should be. Especially, if a token is both expired and invalid, the errors returned by `ParseWithClaims` return both error codes. If users only check for the `jwt.ErrTokenExpired ` using `error.Is`, they will ignore the embedded `jwt.ErrTokenSignatureInvalid` and thus potentially accept invalid tokens. A fix has been back-ported with the error handling logic from the `v5` branch to the `v4` branch. In this logic, the `ParseWithClaims` function will immediately return in "dangerous" situations (e.g., an invalid signature), limiting the combined errors only to situations where the signature is valid, but further validation failed (e.g., if the signature is valid, but is expired AND has the wrong audience). This fix is part of the 4.5.1 release. We are aware that this changes the behaviour of an established function and is not 100 % backwards compatible, so updating to 4.5.1 might break your code. In case you cannot update to 4.5.0, please make sure that you are properly checking for all errors ("dangerous" ones first), so that you are not running in the case detailed above.
CWE:   CWE-755: Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions
CVSS Source:   IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score:   3.1
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2025-30204
DESCRIPTION:   golang-jwt is a Go implementation of JSON Web Tokens. Starting in version 3.2.0 and prior to versions 5.2.2 and 4.5.2, the function parse.ParseUnverified splits (via a call to strings.Split) its argument (which is untrusted data) on periods. As a result, in the face of a malicious request whose Authorization header consists of Bearer followed by many period characters, a call to that function incurs allocations to the tune of O(n) bytes (where n stands for the length of the function's argument), with a constant factor of about 16. This issue is fixed in 5.2.2 and 4.5.2.
CWE:   CWE-405: Asymmetric Resource Consumption (Amplification)
CVSS Source:   security-advisories@github.com
CVSS Base score:   7.5
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:3.1/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

8.1, 8.0z0-z5

IBM Storage Ceph7.1z0-z5,7.0
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 7.1z6 or later by following instructions.

https://public.dhe.ibm.com/ibmdl/export/pub/storage/ceph/
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-ceph/7.1.0?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-2024-51744

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-30204

 

Acknowledgement

Change History

29 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:
29 July 2025

UID

ibm17240988