CVE-2025-52555Improper Privilege Management in Ceph

Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 94.47%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJun 26

Description

Ceph is a distributed object, block, and file storage platform. In versions 17.2.7, 18.2.1 through 18.2.4, and 19.0.0 through 19.2.2, an unprivileged user can escalate to root privileges in a ceph-fuse mounted CephFS by chmod 777 a directory owned by root to gain access. The result of this is that a user could read, write and execute to any directory owned by root as long as they chmod 777 it. This impacts confidentiality, integrity, and availability. It is patched in versions 17.2.8, 18.2.5, an

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:NExploitability: 1.3 | Impact: 4.7

Affected Packages2 packages

Debianceph/ceph< 14.2.21-1+deb11u1+2
CVEListV5ceph/ceph= 17.2.7, >= 18.2.1, < 18.2.5, >= 19.0.0, < 19.2.3+2

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
OSV
CVE-2025-52555: Ceph is a distributed object, block, and file storage platform2025-06-26
CVEList
CephFS Permission Escalation Vulnerability in Ceph Fuse mounted FS2025-06-26

📋Vendor Advisories

3
Red Hat
ceph: privilege escalation by unprivileged users in a ceph-fuse mounted CephFS2025-06-26
Microsoft
CephFS Permission Escalation Vulnerability in Ceph Fuse mounted FS2025-06-10
Debian
CVE-2025-52555: ceph - Ceph is a distributed object, block, and file storage platform. In versions 17.2...2025