High severity · published Jan 17, 2023
CVE-2022-3650
A privilege escalation flaw was found in Ceph
7.8
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A privilege escalation flaw was found in Ceph. Ceph-crash.service allows a local attacker to escalate privileges to root in the form of a crash dump, and dump privileged information.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 26% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CE
Ceph · Redhat
16.2.9 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-3650
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-3650
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OEVVWT5ZFLYCVZNDJTDX7R6RY2W7JHP5/
Exploit
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2022/q4/41
security.gentoo.org
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202312-10
lists.debian.org
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/09/msg00025.html
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